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Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector

Ye, Z; Yin, YP; (2008) Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector. (University of Hertfordshire Business School Working Paper 2007:2). SSRN: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper adopts the industrial capabilities argument and the concept of revealed comparative advantage as the basis for evaluating the competitiveness of the UK creative industries in sustaining export growth. The empirical results have revealed a heterogeneous nature of the economic linkages and comparative advantage positions within the UK creative sector. There is also evidence to support the industrial capabilities argument that the dynamic inter-play within the domestic economy matters for the external competitiveness of industries, particularly for the creative sector. A further finding is that industries with strong backward linkages tend to be positively related, whilst sectors with strong forward linkages negatively related, to their within-country cross-sector comparative advantages.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1310948
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1310948
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: creative industries, economic linkages, comparative advantage, competitiveness, industrial policy, UK
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129520
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