Economy – Creative Industries: companies and organisations of the cultural and creative sector as economic, social and cultural engines; Place – Creative Spaces: places as spaces of cultural and creative production and consumption that attract resources, people and capital; People – Creative Talent: people with artistic skills and personal abilities that nurture creativity, with an entrepreneurial spirit enhancing the creation of innovative businesses. Such interaction depends largely on the specific governance systems and institutional arrangements of the territories – Governance, and that of their position in the spatial system and urban hierarchies, and their level of access to information and communication technologies and the digital economy - Connectivity. Figure 1 - The Creative Ecosystem
Source: Adapted from INTELI (2009)
Economy | Creative Industries Creative industries are at the core of the creative economy. However, both in the academic literature and public policy agendas there is not a common and universal definition of the concept and of its composition in terms of sub-sectors of activity. In the policy discourse, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) introduced the most popular notion in 1998 in the UK. The famous report, Creative Industries Mapping Study, defines
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