Innovation in informal creative industries: The case of Indonesia's creative kampongs

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.105805

Adiwan F. Aritenang , Zalfa Fadilla Anjani , Pingkan Safitri , Fikri Zul Fahmi , Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte , Karin Pfeffer , Ana Mafalda Madureira , Dadan Ramdan , Ari Nurman

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Abstract

In many Global South countries, creative industries (CIs) are found intersecting with informal settlements. In Indonesia, this is particularly visible in the creative urban villages (kampongs). This paper aims to identify the innovation processes (both technical and systemic innovations) undertaken by CIs operating from these creative kampongs. Using a comparative study in two creative kampongs with different creative identities and communities, we found the presence of incremental and pragmatic innovation influenced by the conditions of informality and the impact of the limitation of resources faced by CIs in these areas. Our findings particularly emphasise aspects of knowledge production and the innovation process of CIs in the kampongs. The paper contributes to understanding the importance of actor-networks and the emergence of technology that allows informal businesses to innovate their products and services. It also contributes to reflect on the role of kampong as a shared space in which communal spirit expedite knowledge production and identity for CIs.

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

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11.20

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期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.