An International Overview on the Creative Industries

In the following we give an overview on both national as well as international studies on the Creative Industries. Since in the recent past a vast amount of such studies has been published we are by no means able to analyze all studies, but will present those which clearly influenced the current discussion on the topic in the scientific community. Above all, studies from the United Kingdom are major contributions to and catalysts of the ongoing debate. Another focus of the following chapter is the situation in Germany.