Elisa Salvador is Professor (PhD, HDR) of Innovation and Creativity at ESSCA School of Management, France. Trilce Navarrete is Lecturer in Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University, Netherlands. Andrej Srakar is Scientific Associate at the Institute for Economic Research (IER) and Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
A timely and much needed overview of the state of the cultural and creative industries across Europe in the time of pandemic. The three foci of responses: at the local, labour market and national and institutional levels, provide lucid and detailed new evidence that culture matters more than ever; but sadly, that our information sources are deficient, and policy responses are insufficient. Read it and weep: we must do better! Andy C Pratt, Professor of Cultural Economy and Director of Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City, University of London, UK