Cultural industry clusters and the governance of innovation: The case study of Taipei’s music industry

• Main Authors: LIN, CHENG-YI, 林政逸
• Other Authors: HSING, WOAN-CHIAU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08925925735883601369

博士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 96 === This dissertation aims to explore the symbolic relationship between spatial clustering and the innovation governance of cultural industries by the case study of Taipei’s music industries. The existing research on cultural industry clusters had put much emphasis on the traded and un-traded dependence as the mechanism of local innovative clusters. Less attention was given to the symbolic dimension of place dependence which has influenced on the innovation capacity in a cultural enterprise. In particular, the role of reputation in the innovation governance of cultural industry clusters still remains poorly understood. Two research questions were rised- what kind of mechanism which make cultural enterprieses agglomerate at the urban environment? How is this innovation governance in the cultural industry clusters? Thus this research attempts to move beyond the theoretical deficit of cultural industry cluster and conceptualize the role of reputation into the urban cultural economy. Within the debates on urban cultural economy, this research conceptualizes the reputation mechanism into the innovation governance of cultural industry cluster through the interactive relationship of actor-environment. This research, following the framework of analysis, uses a qualitative methodology to analyze the spatial, social and institutional dynamics of Taipei’s music industry production system. Two major research methods were conducted as follows. (1) The author collected informal and formal data of the music industry product system to identify the major spatial distributions of music enterprises and employment in Taipei and within Taiwan. (2) The author contacted the key informants of Taipei’s music production projects and conducted thirty semi-structured interviews to analyze the governance of innovation in a project-led music cluster. The author concluded that the ‘local reputation effect’ is the casual mechanism of why music enterprises continued to agglomerate at the Taipei urban region. After examining the case of music enterprises in Taipei, this author have two major conclusions. Firstly, music enterprises and workers have to agglomate at the Taipei urban region due to the pursuit of creative and innovative energy. This is because the production of innovative music commodity, the transfer of tacit knowledge and individual career developement are highly embedeed into local music production system, labor market and consumer market. The interaction of urban environment and mirco-governance of music production, including face-toface contact, social interaction and ‘being’ in urban environment, had shaped an urban creative capacity. Secondly, spatial cluster of project-led music enterprise constituted a geographic uniqueness of a music production system, the dynamics of labor market and local consumer market. Three dimensions of urban environment constituted the local reputation effect which influenced the spatial cluster of music enterprises and workers. Only through understanding the institutional-building process of place’s reputation will a virtuous cycle for the revitalization of a unique urban environment be generated.