Bollywood and Bangalore as Clusters of Creativity

India's economic growth and development over the past decade or so has been nothing short of remarkable. The success of the country's high-tech software industry around Bangalore (capitol of the Karnataka state) has been recounted many places, but India’s Bollywood has emerged as the world’s largest producer of films, larger even than Hollywood.

Published in the Journal of Economic Geography, a recent study by Mark Lorenzen (Copenhagen Business School) and Ram Mudambi (Temple University's business school) details the very different ways these two creative clusters have developed and emerged on the world scene. (An earlier ungated version of their research is here.)