Abstract:

Cultural and creative industries represent a sector undergoing a flourishing and constant development. Due to the increasing importance of creativity and innovation in economic development and cultural empowerment, the expansion of the creative industries is largely spread in sectors such as IT, research and development, cinema and music, fashion, design and architecture, photography, performing arts, books and magazines etc. All these activities and even emerging industries contribute to economic development, diminishing differences between regions, job creation, foreign trade expansion, fostering innovation etc. In this paper we focus on presenting the area of cultural and creative industry, based on Eurostat approach and on the data provided by the National Institute of Cultural Research of Romania. We also present key measures and indicators for the cultural and creative sector in Romania, namely the number of firms operating in the industry, the turnover created in the industry, for the period of 2010-2016.