Brussels’ media industry: A first look into its size and composition
(2018) Cultural and creative industries. Creativity in a divided city - La créativité dans une ville divisée — ISBN: [9789057188022], published
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- The importance of the media industry as an economic asset for cities has been broadly recognized by a growing number of studies and governments from multiple levels. For instance, Krätke (2003) argues that media firms are highly influential in the development of cities. The European Commission states that the media industry plays ‘a key economic, social and cultural role in Europe’, and ‘creates growth and jobs’ (European Commission, 2015). Scott (2000) furthermore stresses that the media industry has been part of many urban regeneration schemes throughout the world. This is also the case for the Brussels-Capital Region. In the Sustainable Regional Development Plan, the regional government identified the creative and cultural industries, including the media industry, as a key sector for economic development. In more detail, the government plans on supporting the development of an audio-visual (AV) media cluster, an agglomeration of the media industry (Komorowski, 2016) and the so-called mediapark.brussels (2013, p.44; 2016, pp.20, 65).1 The argumentation in favour of public support for the media industry in Brussels is strongly influenced by its ability to generate economic benefits for the city. However, little is known about its size and composition. This chapter intends to fill this gap by providing reliable quantitative descriptive insights.
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Wiard, V. (2018). Brussels’ media industry: A first look into its size and composition. In Rinschbergh, F. Swyngedouw, E. Vlegels, J. (ed.), Cultural and creative industries. Creativity in a divided city - La créativité dans une ville divisée. VUBPRESS. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223610