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The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China
The digital transformation of contemporary economy has led to an increasing number of new forms of occupation, such as the creative e-Freelancers. These self-employed individuals, in general, in design-oriented sectors, enjoy a highly flexible mode of business operation regarding their location choi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9535228/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-01088-6 |
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author | He, Jinliao Peng, Jue Zeng, Gang |
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description | The digital transformation of contemporary economy has led to an increasing number of new forms of occupation, such as the creative e-Freelancers. These self-employed individuals, in general, in design-oriented sectors, enjoy a highly flexible mode of business operation regarding their location choice of workplace; which reflects the implications of digital technologies on the spatiality of the creative economy. However, it was observed by recent literature that the space of the creative digital economy has not become more dispersed, but appeared to be another sort of agglomeration economy. In order to unfold the agglomeration mechanism of creative e-Freelancers, and shed further light on the spatial reconstruction process of economic geography in the digital era, the paper at hand empirically investigates the spatiality of creative e-Freelancers in China following an amenity-based approach. The findings suggest that the creative e-Freelancers in China tend to gather in some metropolises, while a strong rebalancing force has been noticed in reshaping the existing urban and economic system. The creative e-Freelancing workforce is significantly driven by local amenities, such as richness of human capital (e.g., college students), entrepreneur-friendly milieu for e-Business, a high quality of life supported by easy accessibility to leisure facilities and public transport, as well as affluent cultural heritages. Some second-rank cities particularly benefit from this phenomenon. |
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spelling | pubmed-95352282022-10-06 The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China He, Jinliao Peng, Jue Zeng, Gang J Knowl Econ Article The digital transformation of contemporary economy has led to an increasing number of new forms of occupation, such as the creative e-Freelancers. These self-employed individuals, in general, in design-oriented sectors, enjoy a highly flexible mode of business operation regarding their location choice of workplace; which reflects the implications of digital technologies on the spatiality of the creative economy. However, it was observed by recent literature that the space of the creative digital economy has not become more dispersed, but appeared to be another sort of agglomeration economy. In order to unfold the agglomeration mechanism of creative e-Freelancers, and shed further light on the spatial reconstruction process of economic geography in the digital era, the paper at hand empirically investigates the spatiality of creative e-Freelancers in China following an amenity-based approach. The findings suggest that the creative e-Freelancers in China tend to gather in some metropolises, while a strong rebalancing force has been noticed in reshaping the existing urban and economic system. The creative e-Freelancing workforce is significantly driven by local amenities, such as richness of human capital (e.g., college students), entrepreneur-friendly milieu for e-Business, a high quality of life supported by easy accessibility to leisure facilities and public transport, as well as affluent cultural heritages. Some second-rank cities particularly benefit from this phenomenon. Springer US 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9535228/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-01088-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article He, Jinliao Peng, Jue Zeng, Gang The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title | The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title_full | The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title_fullStr | The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title_full_unstemmed | The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title_short | The Spatiality of the Creative Digital Economy: Local Amenities to the Spatial Agglomeration of Creative E-Freelancers in China |
title_sort | spatiality of the creative digital economy: local amenities to the spatial agglomeration of creative e-freelancers in china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9535228/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-01088-6 |
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