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Phil Cooke
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 22
Citations - 417
Phil Cooke is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creative class & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 22 publications receiving 395 citations.
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A policy agenda for EU smart growth: the role of creative and cultural industries
Phil Cooke,Lisa De Propris +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a resilient economy requires a growth agenda that is underpinned by a balanced industrial mix, the development and adoption of new knowledge or technological platforms, and risk taking in radical and incremental innovations as well as in soft and hard innovations.
The geography of creativity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map the presence of creative firms across Britain as a first step towards establishing their impact on regional innovation at a second stage of the NESTA project, which is informed by the influential concept of industrial clusters.
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Social Capital, Embeddedness, and Market Interactions: An Analysis of Firm Performance in UK Regions
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of social capital on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance were examined. And the authors presented results of a research project examining the effect of social networks on SME performance.
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Municipal enterprise, growth coalitions and social justice:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider some options on offer, in what will undoubtedly remain a cold climate for local democracy and the extent to which they allow scope for the furtherance of a nowadays unfashionable notion of social justice.
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Towards a Reconciliation of the ‘Context-less’ with the ‘Space-less’? The Creative Class across Varieties of Capitalism: New Evidence from Sweden and the UK
TL;DR: Clifton et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of different types of capitalism in relation to the location dynamics of the creative class in Sweden and the UK, finding that the coordinated market economy in the UK flattens the distribution of creative class, tempered by the Swedish urban hierarchy which acts to concentrate it in a smaller number of (larger) locations.