Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK

Patrizia Casadei, Enrico Vanino and Neil Lee

Regional Studies, 2023, vol. 57, issue 7, 1349-1366

Abstract: Creative services have become an important, but understudied, part of global trade. This paper presents new evidence on the transformation, geography and industrial relatedness of creative service exports in the UK, using the Inquiry in International Trade in Services (ITIS) database. Creative services exports have grown over the past decade, but there are pronounced patterns of geographical specialization in the export of creative and non-creative services. We develop a measure of relatedness between exports of creative and non-creative services and of manufacturing goods. We argue that creative services are economically significant because of their interrelationship with other local sectors.

Date: 2023
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