TY - CHAP AB - Abstract The chapter discusses the characteristics of audiovisual (AV) media sectors in the Baltic Sea region. Therein it focuses on the specifics of media industries in small countries in the region as they are challenged in ways notably different from large countries with large domestic markets for media content. It discusses the differences between the AV media industries in the Nordic and Baltic countries and suggests that while in the first case long-term welfare society policies and conscious policy-driven system building have conditioned growth and international success then also in the second case innovation policy rationales have facilitated recent growth and dynamics. It then discusses the specific challenges, especially platformisation to small media industries in contemporary globalising media markets, and suggests that opportunities to resist these challenges may be in local inter-sectoral cooperation, that is, in building cross-innovation systems. SN - 978-1-78769-980-9, 978-1-78769-977-9/ DO - 10.1108/978-1-78769-977-920191009 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-977-920191009 AU - Ibrus Indrek AU - Rohn Ulrike ED - Indrek Ibrus PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - Small Size Matters: Audiovisual Media Industries around the Baltic Sea T2 - Emergence of Cross-innovation Systems PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 41 EP - 58 Y2 - 2024/05/11 ER -