The Evolution of Taipei’s Music Industry: Cluster and Network Dynamics in the Innovation Practices of the Music Industry

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the spatial and organisational dynamics of innovation activities in the evolution of cultural industry using Taipei’s music industry as a case study. The existing literature has emphasised that innovation and creativity are driving the evolution of the cultural industry as a result of the spatial proximity effect generated by production systems. However, few studies have examined the innovation practices of the cultural industry resulting from interactive relationships between the urban cluster environment and the mobilisation process of project networks. An evolutionary perspective is used to illustrate how the cluster and network elements of the music industry are intertwined in innovation practices within the Taipei context. As a contribution to the cluster–network debates, this paper argues that the innovation dynamics of Taipei’s music industry are a hybrid feature of Taipei’s cluster environment and the strategic competencies of music project networks rather than the local cluster effect. In conclusion, a different trajectory for the evolution of Taipei’s music industry is presented. Additionally, this dynamic process between cluster and network makes Taipei a hybrid creative platform that is an active element in the cultivation of the innovative competencies of Taipei’s music producers and related workers.

Co-innovation processes in the music business

“…Thus, we are hopeful that our model provides more detailed theoretical elaboration regarding how value in the co-innovation processes is mapped and contextualised in music-related settings. Our study can also be used in developing guidelines or policies for co-innovation practices, which previous studies have not yet explained (Najmark-Hvidt and Espersen, 2012; Gateau, 2014; Lin, 2014). Government bodies or other private entities, e.g., record label, independent music artists, and music communities, in the music business ecosystems can use this as a guideline for constructing co-innovation process and platforms.…”

Competências Organizacionais no Contexto dos Relacionamentos Interorganizacionais

“…Dentre os trabalhos mais recentes sobre a temática estudada, é possível observar que o mais atual deles, o único de 2014, relaciona competência organizacional e inovação. Lin (2014) concluiu, a partir de seu estudo de caso na indústria musical de Taiwan, que o sucesso no uso de competências de negociação em projetos de inovação gera aumento de competitividade local.…”

The four faces of creative industries: visualising the game industry ecosystem in Helsinki and Tokyo

“…In this paper, we have analysed thirty-three drawings of local game industry clusters in Helsinki and Tokyo, and the findings shed light on how and why individuals embedded in these clusters perceive organisations within the creative industries (Aage and Belussi, 2008;Hesmondhalgh, 2002;Hirsch, 1972;Lazzeretti et al 2008;Lin, 2014;Maskell and Lorenzen, 2004;Peltoniemi, 2015) interact and cluster with other actors, and how the ecosystem as a practitioner concept is a contested one in that its understanding appears to significantly differ across actors. Insights arising from the data analysed in this paper are twofold: we have analysed perceptions of game industry ecosystem through drawings and explored clustering through novel research methods.…”