Creative Industries
Governance of Metropolitan Regions

Leipzig, Germany

The conference examined the formation of the creative knowledge economy in different European metropolitan regions. The focus was on understanding the diversity of regulatory mechanisms and governance forms directed at fostering the different segments of these economies on various spatial scales. The conference aimed at linking academics, practitioners and urban planners as well as cultural entrepreneurs and artists to discuss appropriate instruments and governance formats. The conference will explore various particularities of creative industries that can be taken into account in order to establish knowledge on suitable and context specific strategies for public or private interventions in this field.
The conference panels were:
Panel 1: Metropolitan Regions and Regional Structures
Panel 2: Characteristics of the Creative Economy: Organisational Forms and Networks
Panel 3: Governance and Leadership