Creative Industries in Spatial Perspective in the Old Industrial Moravian-Silesian Region

The growing importance of creative industries has logically surfaced also in professional interest in the area of local and regional development. Close attention is paid to questions of spatial organization of creative industries as well as possibilities of its stimulation in the interest of strengthening the competitive position of individual areas. A little less attention is usually paid to the role and spatial organization of the creative industries in diverse geographical conditions, such as old industrial or rural regions. Old industrial areas represent a specific type of problem regions and there are questions of how the creative industries can contribute to regeneration of old industrial regions. The principal focus of this paper is mainly on factors and processes influencing the spatial organization, or respectively the concentration of creative industries in the framework of Moravian Silesian Region as an old industrial region. The Moravian-Silesian Region represents a classical old industrial region of peripheral character, in particular in relation to western markets. The traditional sectors are among the most struck sectors in the region, which can in the future increase the demand for new ones, such as e.g. creative industries. Attention is further paid, on one hand, to internal structural characteristics of creative industries in the comparative perspective, and on the other hand to explanation of evolution in this sector in the region of interest. The objective is not to provide a comprehensive analysis, but more to attempt to articulate the initial principles and to outline possible trends of research in the conditions of the Czech Republic.