Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bertacchini, Enrico
Author-Email: enrico.bertacchini@unito.it 
Author-Name: Friel, Martha
Author-Email: martha.friel@iulm.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.de.unito.it/
Title: Understanding Creativity and Innovation in Industrial Design: an Historical and Empirical Assessment.  
Abstract:In the last decades, industrial design has been increasingly recognized as a sector combining elements of 
both artistic creativity and economic innovation. Using a unique dataset encompassing information on 326 top designers, 
242 firms and 935 products from 1913 to 2000, we investigate the main patterns of the industrial design industry. 
First, we analyze the worldwide evolution of the creative sector in terms of industry structure, changes in product 
materials and agglomeration dynamics of both firms and designers.
Second, we provide a preliminary quantitative investigation of designers’ creativity life-cycles.
The paper contributes to the cultural economics literature by shedding light on the relations between creativity 
and innovation in creative industries 
Length: 25 pages
Creation-Date: 201301
File-URL: http://www.eblacenter.unito.it/WP/2013/1_WP_Ebla_CSS.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:eblawp:201301