TY - JOUR AU - Reid, Neil AU - Gatrell, Jay D. PY - 2017/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Creativity, Community, & Growth: A Social Geography of Urban Craft Beer JF - REGION JA - REGION VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18335/region.v4i1.144 UR - https://openjournals.wu-wien.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/144 SP - 31-49 AB - <p>To better understand the non-economic drivers of growth in emerging industries, this paper examines the craft beer industry.&nbsp; Specifically, the paper will review two examples—the Black Cloister Brewing Company in Toledo, OH and 3<sup>rd</sup> Turn Brewery, Louisville, KY—to understand how the values of entrepreneurs and local firms that are situated at the nexus of work, place, and creativity promote growth. &nbsp;Further, the paper will consider the socio-cultural meaning of creativity relative to the craft beer industry and the many ways in which the concept of innovation traditionally used by economic geographers to understand growth can be better understood within the context of creativity in some industries.&nbsp; In doing so, the paper represents a conceptual shift away from innovation towards creativity, as well as community.</p> ER -