selada c., cunha i. & tomaz e., 2012. Creative-based strategies in small and medium-sized cities: Key dimensions of analysis.abstract. The present article intends to contribute to the literature and research agenda regarding the importance of the creative economy as a driver for the revitalisation and development of small and medium-sized cities in Europe. Several studies argue that these territorial areas are necessarily doomed to failure and decline due to the lack of critical mass and density in terms of economic and institutional resources. However, some small towns are changing their development path towards a new 'urban' paradigm. The present research aims to identify and analyse a set of dimensions that have to be taken into consideration in the implementation of creative-based strategies in small and medium-sized cities, namely: governance factors, endogenous factors, and territorial embeddedness. key words: small and medium-sized cities, creative economy, creative-based strategies, local development Catarina Selada, INTELI, Av.

Despite the trends towards globalisation, regions and cities are emerging as the main arenas for territorial competitiveness. Cities have begun to act as communities of knowledge, innovation, creativity and learning, becoming more dynamic, complex, diverse, open and intangible. In this context, new urban strategies and policies have to be considered. In this paper, we will try to clarify the concept of 'innovation hub' as an outcome of creative urban regeneration processes. Based on a case study research methodology, we intend to distil best practices for the design and planning of these intelligent spaces.

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This chapter aims to describe and reflect on the experience developed in a metropolitan territory that ambitiously wanted to articulate entrepreneurship, creativity and urban governance. In spaces marked by economic and social crisis the requirement to mobilize synergies between local actors is even more pressing. From the municipality's leadership, Almada Idea Laboratory Project sought to involve university professors and students to generate creative ideas as well as business hosting centre for the installation of projects with greater viability and the community in general that had the opportunity to assess and discuss the product of this effort. The council offered its urban space as a living laboratory. Ideas, business opportunities and, above all, the possibility of creating and strengthening links between actors, often distant, proved a very successful experience both in objective results as in the formation of useful social capital to develop new projects.