Emerging Synergies in Innovation Systems: Creative Industries in Central Europe

Abstract The window of opportunity has opened for the creative industries in Central Europe decades following fall communist regime and transition to a decentralised market economy. Creative with symbolic knowledge base are crucial regional resilience, synergies established by these economic activities highly influence long-term ability innovation systems develop. question is whether have started grow can contribute development post-socialist knowledge-based economies Europe, if so, at what territorial level. By distinguishing three dimensions (geography, technology, organisation) that operate measuring their interactions using entropy statistics two countries, Slovakia Hungary, paper reveals most significant part synergy emerges local level systems. However, benefits realised not only locally but also globally due deterritorialised nature end-products integration into other industrial products on global market.