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The creative economy has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years, both in the area
of cultural economics as well as in economic development studies and the analysis of spatial
disparities. The underlying notion is to consider creative capital as a production factor linked to
talent, technological innovation and initiative, which may shape part of an area or region’s
economic flows, replacing merely physical production factors. Clearly, many of the activities to
emerge from creative capital are based mainly on culture and cultural activities. Yet, their
ultimate goal is not to produce purely artistic artefacts aside from the market but to create
marketable prototypes which are differentiated due to their design and innovative nature. This is
why, today, creative activities might have a greater impact on economic development than
talent, perceived in the conventional sense.
Based on these considerations, the current work seeks to explore the territorial distribution of
cultural activities and creativity in Portugal and to ascertain the relationship with the level of
economic development. This involves defining the cultural and creative sector and its main
components, for which purpose we follow the definition of cultural sector from Maheus (2010)
and we draw on R. Florida’s (2002) widely embraced factors; talent, technology, and tolerance.
The level of territorial disaggregation is NUTS 3. The technique applied is based on
multivariate statistical analysis, essentially, factorial analysis to construct synthetic indicators
for creativity and development; and cluster analysis to determine homogeneous areas in the
resulting distribution. We build partial indicators from the main conceptual branches of the
cultural sector and creativity and we also estimate a new global synthetic indicator based on the
main components obtained before by factorial analysis. As expected, the most salient
preliminary findings to emerge from the study point to a concentration of creative activities
mainly in the areas around Lisbon and Oporto, there also being agglomeration factors around
university cities and other places which
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Keywords
Cultura Creatividad Indicadores culturales y creativos Análisis económico espacial Análisis estadístico multivariante Clusters
Citation
Figueira, Jorge; Herrero Prieto, Luis; Sanz Lara, José (2015). Indicadores de actividad cultural y potencial creativo en Portugal: estudio regional para NUT 3. In Indicadores de actividad cultural y potencial creativo en Portugal: estudio regional para NUT 3. Porto