Emerging creative cities: mapping regional capitals in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

摘要

Mapping the creative industries is a crucial basis for assessing the creative economy in the regions, particularly to develop creative clusters and the subsequent identification of stakeholders and networks. The article provides topic to discuss methods of secondary data quantitative analysis of the commercial creative industries from publicly available sources and reveals shortcomings in databases in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The performed mapping takes into account a contribution of the time factor, where reveals the significant differences between enterprises in Czech and Slovak regional capitals. The article posts a foundation for facilitation of creative clusters and creative industries development strategies as instruments to support competitiveness at the city level.