Presentation of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Region of Epirus

Abstract

This part of the study describes the development of cultural and creative industries during the last few decades with emphasis on the years of the recent economic crisis. The data used in this part came from the Chambers of Epirus and were collected between September 2014 and March 2015. The database is built according to the NACE codes used to describe the cultural and creative industries and details presented in the report of The European Cluster Observatory “Priority Sector Report: Creative and Cultural Industries” by Dominic Power (2011). The presentation of the cultural and creative enterprises is two-dimensional; the first dimension is of the regional units: regional unit of Ioannina, regional unit of Arta, regional unit of Preveza and regional unit of Thesprotia. The second dimension refers to the enterprises’ activity by sector. According to the data collected 2.8 % of the total number of the enterprises operate in 41 sectors of the creative and cultural industries in the four regional units of Epirus. Τhe evolution of cultural and creative enterprises in the region from the 1980s until today is also presented.