Abstract
This article aims to verify the hypothesis that creativity is an important factor for socio-economic development of Polish regions. The first part of the paper clarifies the idea of regional creativity, its factors and method of measurement. Following two parts present methodology and results of the research concerning creativity and development which uses multivariate comparative analysis. The next one examines relationship between these phenomena. The research revealed that there is strong correlation between the level of creativity and socio-economic development of regions in Poland. In addition, there are large disparities in the level of creativity of these regions. It may be one of the reasons for persistence and even deepening of interregional differences in the level and dynamics of socio-economic development of these regions in the future.
Highlights
Creativity is a concept that occurred recently in actions to intensify the development of European Union regions and to increase their economic and social cohesion
This assumption, has not been verified empirically. Making such verification would be of particular importance especially in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe. They are in most cases lagging behind compared to other regions of the EU, so if creativity is important factor for their development, creating conducive environment to creativity would be as important activity of development policy as investing in technical and social infrastructure, building the diverse structure of the economy, including the promotion of a knowledge-based sectors of the economy, creating conducive conditions to formation and functioning of entrepreneurship, developing business environment institutions and activating local and regional authorities to create the right climate for business
As well as socio-economic development of the region are multifaceted phenomena, the starting point in a research designed to confirm or deny the existence of dependencies between them was measuring them using the synthetic indicator that takes into account many of the characteristics of these phenomena simultaneously
Summary
Creativity is a concept that occurred recently in actions to intensify the development of European Union regions and to increase their economic and social cohesion. The explanatory memorandum stressed that in order to improve the quality of life of the EU regional communities it is necessary to create innovation in the regions, and the condition of their creation is just creativity Creativity in this approach was treated as a key prerequisite for economic development understood in both economic and social terms. As well as socio-economic development of the region are multifaceted phenomena, the starting point in a research designed to confirm or deny the existence of dependencies between them was measuring them using the synthetic indicator that takes into account many of the characteristics of these phenomena simultaneously.
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