Creative Leipzig? The views of high-skilled employees, managers and transnational migrants ISBN 978-94-90312-17-6 Printed in the Netherlands by Xerox Service Center, Amsterdam Edition: 2009 Cartography lay-out and cover: Puikang Chan, AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam All publications in this series are published on the ACRE-website http://www.acre.socsci.uva.nl and most are available on paper at: Dr. Olga Gritsai, ACRE project manager University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel. +31 20 525 4044 +31 23 528 2955 Fax +31 20 525 4051 E-mail [email protected] Copyright © Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam 2009. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced in any form, by print or photo print, microfilm or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. Creative Leipzig? The views of high-skilled employees, managers and transnational migrants ACRE report 8.6 Joachim Burdack Bastian Lange Kornelia Ehrlich Accommodating Creative Knowledge – Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union Amsterdam 2009 AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam ACRE ACRE is an acronym of the international research project ‘Accommodating Creative Knowledge – Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union’. The project is funded under the Priority 7 ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society’ within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union (contract no 028270). Coordination: Prof. Sako Musterd University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Participants: Amsterdam (Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Marco Bontje ~ Olga Gritsai ~ Heike Pethe ~ Wim Ostendorf ~ Puikang Chan Barcelona (Centre de Recerca en Economia del Benestar – Centre for Research in Welfare Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain) Montserrat Pareja Eastaway ~ Joaquin Turmo Garuz ~ Montserrat Simó Solsona ~ Lidia Garcia Ferrando ~ Marc Pradel i Miquel Birmingham (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK) Alan Murie ~ Caroline Chapain ~ John Gibney ~ Austin Barber ~ Jane Lutz ~ Julie Brown Budapest (Institute of Geography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Zoltán Kovács ~ Zoltán Dövényi ~ Tamas Egedy ~ Attila Csaba Kondor ~ Balázs Szabó Helsinki (Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland) Mari Vaattovaara ~ Kaisa Kepsu ~ Venla Bernelius Leipzig (Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography, Germany) Joachim Burdack ~ Günter Herfert ~ Bastian Lange ~ Katja Manz ~ Robert Nadler ~ Kornelia Ehrlich ~ Juliane Schröder Munich (Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Germany) Günter Heinritz ~ Sabine Hafner ~ Manfred Miosga ~ Anne von Streit ~ Monika Popp Poznan (Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz ~ Jerzy J. Parysek ~ Tomasz Kaczmarek ~ Michal Meczynski Riga (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia) Anders Paalzow ~ Diana Pauna ~ Vjacheslav Dombrovsky ~ Roberts Kilis ~ Arnis Sauka Sofia (Centre for Social Practices, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) Evgenii Dainov ~ Vassil Garnizov ~ Maria Pancheva ~ Ivan Nachev ~ Lilia Kolova Toulouse (Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban and Sociological Studies, University of Toulouse-II Le Mirail, Toulouse, France) Denis Eckert ~ Christiane Thouzellier ~ Elisabeth Peyroux ~ Michel Grossetti ~ Mariette Sibertin-Blanc ~ Frédéric Leriche ~ Florence Laumière ~ Jean-Marc Zuliani ~ Corinne Siino ~ Martine Azam ~ Hélène Martin-Brelot Milan (Department of Sociology and Social research, University degli Studi di Milan Bicocca, Italy) Enzo Mingione ~ Francesca Zajczyk ~ Elena dell’Agnese ~ Silvia Mugnano ~ Marianna d’Ovidio ~ Carla Sedini Dublin (School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland) Declan Redmond ~ Brendan Williams ~ Niamh Moore ~ Veronica Crossa ~ Enda Murphy ~ Philip Lawton Table of contents Executive summary.......................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Introduction to the region........................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Structure of the report ............................................................................................................. 4 2 Research design and methodology ...................................................................................... 5 2.1 Methodological background of previous works...................................................................... 5 2.1.1 WP 5 – Creative Knowledge workers and graduates ............................................................ 5 2.1.2 The managers’ view .............................................................................................................6 2.1.3 Transnational migrants in creative knowledge industries .................................................... 8 2.2 Methodological background for WP8................................................................................... 11 2.2.1 Application of triangulation in WP8 ................................................................................... 12 2.2.2 Limitations and problems.................................................................................................... 13 3 Evaluation of the city region from the perspective of different target groups ............. 15 3.1 Comparing spatial orientations and behaviour of the different target groups....................... 15 3.1.1 The worker’s perspective (comprising creative and knowledge-intensive branches) ......... 15 3.1.2 The manager’s perspective.................................................................................................. 21 3.1.3 Similarities between workers and managers ....................................................................... 26 3.1.4 Difference between workers and managers......................................................................... 27 3.1.5 The perspective of transnational migrants........................................................................... 28 3.1.6 Knowledge-Intensive Industries.......................................................................................... 28 3.1.7 Creative Industries............................................................................................................... 29 3.2 Exemplary triangulation........................................................................................................ 30 3.2.1 General theses ..................................................................................................................... 30 3.2.2 Small-scaled theses.............................................................................................................. 32 3.3 Basic factors.......................................................................................................................... 38 4 Evaluation of the city region from the perspective of local conditions and policies ............................................................................................................................................. 41 4.1 Strong and weak points of the city-region regarding their capacity to accommodate creative knowledge ............................................................................................................... 41 4.2 Leipzig in context: Unique selling proposition and site-specific location factors in respect to larger cities in Germany ....................................................................................... 44 4.2.1 Position in European networks and hierarchy..................................................................... 44 4.2.2 Continuation the legacy of trade fair business – Leipzig and the asset “fair business” in a European context.......................................................................................................... 44 4.2.3 Forming a place with high quality - Providing adequate housing and retail infrastructures...................................................................................................................... 45 4.2.4 Leipzig and its efforts to establish new markets with cluster policies ................................ 47 i 4.3 Path dependency. A second attempt, based on the various empirical results ....................... 48 4.3.1 Questioning path dependency on the field of economic sectors in Leipzig ........................ 48 4.3.2 Emergence of new trajectories – Unintended formations of creative and entrepreneurial agents as an expression of path dependencies............................................ 49 4.3.3 Conclusion: Attractiveness of Leipzig as an international labour market........................... 50 4.3.4 Leipzig and its position in Germany and Europe ...............................................................

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