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Starving the golden goose? Access to finance for innovators in the creative industries
No full textThis paper extends research on innovating firms’ access to finance in the creative industries. While we know that entrepreneurial firms experience barriers to applying for funding and difficulties in securing positive outcomes, prior studies have shown that firms may use patents to signal innovative quality to potential investors. Yet these studies typically focus on R&D-oriented innovation in ‘traditional’ technological sectors. Creative industries firms have different innovation characteristics that may influence the funding process, including the uncertainty of content-based product markets, the highly-imbalanced information asymmetries between creative entrepreneurs and conservative investors, and the symbolic and intangible nature of their innovations. Using the UK‘s Creative Industries Council‘s unique cross-sectional survey data of 575 firms we analyse the extent to which innovating firms seek to apply to and achieve funding from a wide range of potential sources. We find little evidence that prior innovative activities provide a meaningful signal, positive or negative, to potential funders for creative industries firms. This suggests that the highly intangible and symbolic nature of innovation in creative industries businesses is unreliable as an indicator of quality. The reliance of owners on personal capital is congruent with recent literature on the high levels of social and personal capital among workers in the creative industries. We suggest that the specific challenges creative firms face may be addressed through new financial and policy instruments to feed and sustain these high-growth, innovating industries
Brighton Fuse 2: Freelancers in the Creative, Digital, IT Economy
Full text linkThe Brighton Fuse 2 project is a one-year AHRC funded research project. Dr Rajguru worked as a Research Fellow and undertook the qualitative research and has co-authored the Brighton Fuse Report with Dr Jonathan Sapsed, the Lead Investigator, Brighton Business School, Dr Roberto Camerani, Co-investigator, University of Sussex, Dr Monica Massuci, University of Sussex and Mylene Peterman, University of Sussex. Brighton Fuse 2 investigates the Freelance cluster within the Creative, IT and Digital (CDIT) sectors in Brighton and Hove. It follows on from the Brighton Fuse project, which investigated the Brighton firms within these sectors in Brighton (2012-2013). This report disseminates the research findings based on rigourous data collection and analyses. It shows the ways in which Brighton freelancers within the CDIT sectors cluster and collaborate to innovate and to contribute to Brighton's economy. It discusses the factor of geography - Brighton as a coastal town in proximity to London, its rich culture, that draws talent to the city, and the importance of the two universities in the city. It shows how freelancers in the CDIT cluster fuse their creative and technical skills to create design, technology and art. This report fills an important gap in freelancer research. Academic texts on this subject are binary; presenting 'How to' guides on freelancing, on the one had, and downgrading the work of freelancers on the other. This report offers a balanced view based on empirical research and makes policy recommendations that will benefit freelancers and the CDIT economy in Brighton and Hove. This co-authored report is one of Rajguru's outputs that develops an understanding of the current influences on the creative sectors of Brighton and creates an impact within the local economy through changes in government policy
Economics, innovation and history: perspectives in honour of Nick von Tunzelmann
No full textThis introductory article raises a methodological challenge for scholars of technical change and innovation, on the one hand, and historians of technical change, on the other. We ask to what extent have economists and historians of technical change engaged in cross-fertilization with regards to methods and the identification of relevant questions. We then provide an overview on the use and methods of history within the field of Economics of Technical Change and Innovation Studies (ETIS), which is traditionally considered as ‘history-friendly’. We locate the work and intellectual heritage of Nick von Tunzelmann among that of a small group of scholars in which history and economics of technical change have co-habited happily. We reflect on the variety of historical methods proposed by the contributors to this Special Issue, who were invited to respond to the above methodological challenge. Finally, we propose a way ahead in terms of the identification of relevant questions and pertinent methodological approaches
Influencing knowledge sharing and hoarding in project-based firms
No full textWhile all these factors are clearly influential, it is the authors’ contention that they are not easily separable but rather highly related. For example, contingencies such as industrial characteristics and the nature of the knowledge used often shape resource allocation, which in turn prioritizes incentive schemes. Birkinshaw et al. (2002) argues that system-embedded knowledge (i.e. knowledge that is a function of the social and physical system in which it exists) is a strong predictor of organizational structure. The success of KM systems is thus contingent upon the fit between the reward systems and the organizational roles, structure (formal and informal), along with sociocultural factors such as culture, power relations, norms, management philosophy and reward systems (Zack, 1999), as well as industry dynamics
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Influencing knowledge sharing and hoarding in project-based firms
No full textWhile all these factors are clearly influential, it is the authors’ contention that they are not easily separable but rather highly related. For example, contingencies such as industrial characteristics and the nature of the knowledge used often shape resource allocation, which in turn prioritizes incentive schemes. Birkinshaw et al. (2002) argues that system-embedded knowledge (i.e. knowledge that is a function of the social and physical system in which it exists) is a strong predictor of organizational structure. The success of KM systems is thus contingent upon the fit between the reward systems and the organizational roles, structure (formal and informal), along with sociocultural factors such as culture, power relations, norms, management philosophy and reward systems (Zack, 1999), as well as industry dynamics
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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