Promoting the creative sector in three deindustrialised economies: the United Kingdom; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Croatia

This report was made possible by a small grant from the Talent and Research Stabilisation Fund of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The short timescale allowed for expenditure under the terms of this grant – less than three months – precluded the completion of a research project. However, the funding was sufficient to fund preliminary investigation of emergent creative sectors in cities in widely different national context but having in common a legacy of “deindustrialisation” (i.e., drastically declining employment in traditional manufacturing industries). Accordingly, this document does not report new research findings but reports on the development of creative sectors in the UK and two countries in the Western Balkans, outlines ideas for place-based research on the creative sector, and details policy initiatives and associated sources of public funding for promoting firms and industries within the creative sector. The contents are intended to be of use to both researchers engaging in “place-based” research on creative industries and policy makers tasked with promoting the creative sector.