Creativity: An Application to the Metropolitan Area of Porto

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Carla Oliveira (Author) FEP; Sandra, ST (Author) FEP; Isabel Mota (Author) FEP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, VOLS 1 AND 2

Pages: 521-529

7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)

PORTUGAL, SEP 20-21, 2012

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FOS: Social sciences > Economics and Business

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Authenticus ID: P-005-KA3

Abstract (EN): The concept of creative economy is associated with the knowledge economy, identifying creativity as a low cost input in the production of goods and services, which generates wealth. Creative Cities emerged as the territorial representation of the knowledge economy illustrating the importance of creativity and economic growth in developing regions. Cities have always been the cradle of industry and activity, being attractive places where people want to stay and instruments of territory development. However, not all cities are spots of creativity; additionally, there are some features that increase cities' abilities to succeed as Creative Cities. On one hand, the territory characteristics are one of the features that influence the merging of creative spots and, on the other hand, creativity change territories increasing their attractiveness. Creative Indexes are important instruments to measure the creativity of cities and to identify strategies to increase it. In this paper, we develop a Composite Index of Creativity, in order to assess the creativity of territories and apply it to the Metropolitan Area of Porto, which is considered an important focus of Creativity in the North Region of Portugal. Due to unavailable data, we applied the index using municipalities' data, knowing that the 16 municipalities have 15 cities, moreover one in each. The application of the Creativity Index to this area reveals that within its limits there are different levels of a Creative Economy emerging and different spots of creativity to be increased.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9