Territorial Distribution of Creative Poles in Romania

The authors of the present study aim to highlight the territorial distribution of creative industries at the level of national settlement network and the way that the pattern of distribution is influenced by the territorial systems specificities. The undergone research evidences the importance of creative industries for the local, regional and national economies through its contribution to the GDP, and also through the creation and maintaing of jobs. The finality of this study is to design a network of creative poles in Romania. The authors took into consideration every NACE code corresponding to creative industries from 2001 until 2011, focusing on indicators like the total number of companies, turnover, profit and number of employees. Another important objective is to identify the way that the creative industries acted and reacted during the economic crisis at the level of each territorial system. The present study also searched the links between the importance of localization and the type of reaction towards the economic crisis. The identification of creative poles in Romania is an important objective of numerous support documents for the National Strategy of Territorial Development for 2014-2020.