Atle Hauge Editor

Brian J. Hracs is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton, UK. He is interested in how digital technologies and global competition are reshaping the creative economy.

Taylor Brydges is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests include economic competitiveness and entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries, and sustainability and the circular economy.

Tina Haisch is Professor for Innovation and Space at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Her research focuses on processes of valuation in creative and cultural industries, how cities and regions transform through arts and culture and which role societal values play.

Atle Hauge is Professor in Service Innovation at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. From 2015 to 2019 he was the leader of Knowledge Works – the Norwegian national Centre for Cultural Industries. He has worked on several projects on the cultural industries, and his PhD thesis was on the Swedish fashion industry. Other research interests are service innovation, digitisation and regional development.

Johan Jansson is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University. Jansson's research concerns the spatial organisation of (economic) activities, spatially and socially embedded processes (e.g. knowledge, creativity, values) and how technology alter distance/proximity dynamics.

Jenny Sjöholm is Lecturer at Linköping University in Sweden at the Department for Technology and Social Change. Her research is found in the area of geohumanities and concerns the geographies, politics and practices of contemporary art, cultural work and digitization.