ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a subset of cultural products industries, involved in the commodification and creation of culture and the transmission of social and cultural content. These industries have been a site of intense geographical exploration (Storper and Christopherson, 1987; Lash and Urry, 1994; Crewe, 1996; Scott, 1996, 2000; Pratt, 1997; Leyshon et al., 1998; Grabher, 2002; Power, 2002). Although the composition of cultural-product industries is likely to vary between different economies and societies, it is still somewhat nebulous which industries can safely be regarded as cultural product industries. There is some consensus, however, that the media and multimedia industries belong to this sector. From the perspective of economic geography, the tendency of these industries to agglomerate and develop a particular social division of labor is particularly interesting. Regional clusters of specialized, interrelated media industries are often the product of local growth processes driven by innovative start-ups (Scott, 1996; Brail and Gertler, 1999; Egan and Saxenian, 1999).
