- Thursday 10 December, 3PM UK time
- Online via Teams webinar
The videogame sector is one of Europe’s fastest growing creative industries, yet it remains poorly captured by official statistics. Creative industries research has often concentrated on major industry hubs, while much less is known about the characteristics and enabling conditions of regional and peripheral clusters. This seminar presents work from the Horizon Europe project GAME-ER, which constructs a spatially representative dataset of European videogame firms from their digital footprint to identify and classify clusters across European regions.
Enrico Bertacchini, Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Turin and member of the Creative PEC Research Fellows Network, will discuss the GAME-ER project’s methodology and findings, and what they mean for the videogame industry. There will be time for Q&A following the presentation.
This 1-hour talk is part of Creative PEC’s Seminar Series.
Speakers
Enrico Bertacchini
Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin
Enrico Bertacchini is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin, where he also serves as spokesperson for the UNESCO Chair on the Economics of Culture and Heritage. He holds a PhD in Institutions, Law and Economics and his research lies at the intersection of cultural economics, economic geography and economic policy, applying these lenses to cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries, culture-led development processes and the digital transformation of cultural organizations. His current work investigates the economics of UNESCO World Heritage designations and the spatial and organizational dynamics of the videogame industry within the GAME-ER project (Horizon Europe/UKRI).
Giorgio Fazio (chair)
Professor of Macroeconomics
Newcastle University
Giorgio Fazio is an applied economist with expertise in macroeconomics, trade and investment. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books on issues such as exchange rates determination, crises and contagion, growth, and convergence at the national and regional levels, productivity, innovation, trade and FDI, civic and cultural capital, creative industries economics.
He has been a Creative PEC researcher since 2018, leading the work on international trade, investment and migration and contributing to economic research in the creative industries in PEC Discussion papers, blogs and peer reviewed journal articles.
Giorgio is Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School and since 2023 is the Research Director of the Creative Industries Policy Evidence Centre.
