The cultural and creative industries in the Spanish regions: The case of Catalonia

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2018-1250

Keywords:

Cultural and creative industries, Spanish regions, cultural cartography, economic growth, employment, competitiveness

Abstract

Cultural and Creative Industries (ICC) form an ecosystem that benefits from both favorable socio-economic environments and the opportunities opened by the technological change. This article establishes the existence of correlations between the indicators that allow contextualizing creative activities in the framework of Spanish regions, in general, and of Catalonia in particular. GDP per capita and education level feedback each other positively; education is associated to lower risks of poverty and high rates of opportunities, infrastructures and digital uses; and the availability and intensive management of information and communication technologies (ICT) is inherent to greater cultural consumption and the enjoyment of favorable economic conditions. The methodology used in the present analysis shows for the first time the disaggregated weight of CCI in Catalonia, and its relationship with the rest of the Spanish regions.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Marcial Murciano Martínez, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Graduate in Journalism, by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB); Diploma in Semiotics by Università di Urbino (Italy); and PhD in Information Sciences, by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Chair Professor of Communication Policies of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. 

He has worked in different positions of academic management and research, among them, he has been Dean of Faculty, Coordinator of the graduate studies in Journalism, Director of the postgraduate and doctoral programs and Director of the Communication Library.

He is honorary President of the Conference of Deans of Communication Sciences of Spain. Main researcher (R+D+i National Plan) specialized in the Geopolitics of communicative change and in communication policies.

He performed research stay in UNESCO (Paris); CETSAS (Paris); CIESPAL (Quito); CNET (Paris); CSCC (London); European Council (Strasbourg) and in the Headquarters of the European Union (Brussels); and in CiCOM, of Universidad de Puerto Rico.

He teaches in Structure of Mass Communications and in Communication Policies. He has been visiting professor in different Spanish, European and Latin-American universities. He is member of different relevant national and international scientific committees, dedicated to evaluation of research and teaching activities (Spain, Portugal and Puerto Rico). Director of the Journal Conexiones, Director of the collection Bosch Comunicación (Barcelona) and Espacio Iberoamericano (Salamanca).

Carlos González Saavedra, Autonomous University of Barcelona

PhD in Communication Sciences (UAB), Master’s degree in Telecommunications (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) and graduate in Social Communication (Universidad Central de Venezuela). Researcher specialized in information and communication technologies (ICT), public communication policies, indicator systems, local communication, society of knowledge and cooperation for development.

He is research coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Communication and the Research Group Localcom (SGR0407). The conducts the executive management of three projects of the R+D+i National Plan (SEC2003/07024; CSO2008/00587; CSO2013-42822-R), of the international project (CF181137); and the European project Smart Elevator (SME Instrument H2020) of the European Commission.

Coordinator of research projects about telecommunications networks for the Olympic International Committee (Lausana, Suiza) and the Localret Consortium (Barcelona, Spain) and member of the editorial committee of the Organic Law Project for Radio television (Caracas, Venezuela).

He has professional experience as research journalist on printed media and as consultant in projects’ management and public policies of broad band networks deployment.

References

Ajuntament de Barcelona (2016). Programa de Actuación Municipal (PAM) 2016-2019. Barcelona: Ayuntament de Barcelona.

Bustamante, E. (ed.) (2011). Industrias creativas. Barcelona: Gedisa.

Bustamante, E. y Rueda, F. (Coords.) (2015): Informe sobre el estado de la cultura en España, la salida digital [ICE-2014]. Madrid: Fundación Alternativas.

Comisión Europea. (2011b). Horizonte 2020, Programa Marco de Investigación e Innovación. COM(2011) 808 final. Bruselas: Comisión Europea.

Departament de Cultura. (2014). Plan de cultura digital para las empresas creativas catalanas 2014-2016. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya.

Departament de Cultura. (2015). Balanç de Govern, Departament de Cultura 2011/2015. Dades pressupostàries. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya.

Departament de Cultura. (2015). Balanç de Govern, Departament de Cultura 2011/2015. Dades pressupostàries. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya.

Departament de Cultura. (2017). Estadístiques culturals de Catalunya 2017. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya.

Departament de Cultura. (2017). Pressupost del Departament de Cultura Projecte 2017. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya.

Department for Culture, Media and Sports. (2011). Creative Industries Economic Estimates. Full Statistical Release. London: DCMS.

ESSnet‐CULTURE and European Commission, Eurostat. (2012): European Statistical System Network on Culture FINAL REPORT. Luxembourgo: ESSnet‐CULTURE/ Eurostat.

Eurostat. (2014). Cultural statistics. Luxembourgo: Publications Office of the European Union.

Eurostat. (2016). Cultural statistics. Luxembourgo: Publications Office of the European Union.

Grupo de Investigación Localcom. (2017). Modelo Estadístico Localcom de las Industrias Creativas y Culturales. Barcelona, España: Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Comunicación. Recuperado de http://centresderecerca.uab.cat/oic

IDESCAT (2017). Estadística y cuentas de las empresas culturales. Barcelona, España: Instituto de Estadística de Cataluña (Idescat). Recuperado de https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=empcult&lang=es

Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (2015): Encuesta Anual de Servicios: Notas metodológicas. Madrid: INE.

KEA European Affairs (2006): The Economy of Culture in Europe, Brussels: European Commission.

Ministerio de de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. (2017). Plan Cultura 2020. Madrid: MECD.

Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. (2016). Anuario de Estadísticas culturales. Madrid: MECD.

Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. (2016). Las cifras de la educación en España. Estadísticas e indicadores. Madrid: MECD.

Ministerio de Educaciuón, Cultura y Deporte. (2010-2015). Cuenta Satélite de la cultura en España. Base 2010. Madrid: MECD.

Ministerio de Fomento. (2015). Atlas Estadístico de la Construcción y Vivienda

Murciano, M. y González Saavedra, C. (2017a). Industrias Creativas y Culturales. Barcelona, España: Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Comunicación. Recuperado de http://centresderecerca.uab.cat/oic/content/industrias-culturales-creativas-presentacion

Murciano, M. y González Saavedra, C. (2017b). Metodología MELICC. Barcelona, España: Observatorio

Iberoamericano de la Comunicación. Recuperado de http://centresderecerca.uab.cat/oic/content/metodologia-melicc

Murciano, M. y González Saavedra, C. (2017c). Índice Localcom. Barcelona, España: Observatorio

Iberoamericano de la Comunicación. Recuperado de http://centresderecerca.uab.cat/oic/content/indice-localcom-serie

Parlamento Europeo. (2013). Reglamento n.º 1295/2013 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 11 de diciembre de 2013, por el que se establece el Programa Europa Creativa (2014-2020). Estrasburgo: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea.

Poblenou Urban District. (2017). El concepto. Barcelona, España: Poblenou Urban District. Recuperado de http://www.poblenouurbandistrict.com/es/

Rodríguez Gómez, E. F., Real Rodríguez, E. y Rosique Cedillo, G. (2017): “Las Industrias Culturales y Creativas en la Comunidad de Madrid: contexto y desarrollo económico 2008 - 2014”. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72, pp. 295-320 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1166

Sasaki, M. (2010). “Urban regeneration through cultural creativity and social inclusion: Rethinking creative city theory through a Japanese case study”. En Cities 27(1), pp. 53–59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2010.03.002

UNESCO. (2012). Measuring the economic contribution of cultural industries. Montreal: UNESCO.

Verón-Lassa, J. J., Zugasti-Azagra, R. y Sabés-Turmo, F. (2017): “La incidencia de la crisis económica en las industrias culturales y creativas: el caso de Aragón (2008-2013)”. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72, pp. 26-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1152

Published

2018-01-31

How to Cite

Murciano Martínez, Marcial, and Carlos González Saavedra. 2018. “The cultural and creative industries in the Spanish regions: The case of Catalonia”. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, no. 73 (January):146-67. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2018-1250.

Issue

Section

Miscellaneous