Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK
利用英国国际贸易服务调查数据，研究创意服务出口的增长、地理分布及其与制造业和其他服务的关联性，揭示创意服务对区域经济的重要性。
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.