Introduction. When analysing creative industries, it is not fully clear yet, which factors do influence this phenomenon, and thus how to support its development and functioning. The creative sector employs about 3.3% of the economically active population in the European Union. The aim of this research paper is to test the possible impact of five selected factors on the employment in the creative industries of the European Union. Results. The data represent 135 observations from 27 EU member states, drawn from the Eurostat database in the period of 2008-2012. Our final model confirmed a significant impact of public spending on science and research, employment in science and research and average wages in creative industries. Our model confirmed positive relationship between public spending on R&D and employment in creative industries. Hence, for every increase in expenditures on R&D by 1%, we may expect 0.014% increase in employment in creative industries. Conclusions. Thus, the research confirms the importance of public support for science and research, as it seems that the development of science and research boosts the development of creative industries as well. This could also apply to a general increase in wages.

The modern world and logistics is subject to constant transformations. The dynamics of these changes continues to increase thus affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of current concepts and logistics solutions. There are new needs and new opportunities that dictate the need for a new view and constant transformations of logistics concepts and operations. The logistics expertise is becoming outdated, especially in the aspect of the implementation of operational activities. This situation generates a need to introduce a comprehensive and innovative solutions that would stay ahead of the time of action. New perspectives of logistics management is the challenges for the future logisticians. Workers and managers in the logistics industry face new challenges, which also imply other than the long-term perspectives of enterprises. Forecasting the development of logistics is neither easy nor simple, it requires not only to perceive new prospective circumstances and challenges for logistics, but also their multifaceted analysis, understanding of mutual implementation and impact. Despite the extremely large scale of difficulty, this seems to be a necessary action, not only because of the growing competitiveness in global markets, but mainly because of the requirements posed by the modern world for the leaders of logistics. We may not be able to predict exactly all conditions of functioning of logistics, but we can sensitize the future logistics managers to them, and indicate expectations of their knowledge, competence and the ability to cope in new dynamically changing conditions of logistics functioning.