Creative social groups in Slovenia: contribution to geographic studying of human resources

Abstract

The com plex of the cur rently mostly pro fi tab le Slo ve nian com pany enga ged in the pro duc tion and mar ke ting of phar ma ceu ti cal pro ducts ope ra ting in more than 70 mar kets in the world, is the spa tial expres sion of crea ti vity. Kom pleks tre nut no naj do bi~ ko no snej {e slo ven ske dru` be, ki se ukvar ja s proi zvod njo in tr`e njem far ma cevt skih proi zvo dov ter poslu je na vek ot 70 tr gih sve ta, je pro stor ski izraz ustvar jal no sti. ABSTRACT: The article analyzes the spatial dispersion of creative occupations in various municipalities in Slovenia. The main conclusion, which can be drawn from the article, is the very uneven distribution of creative occupations, which are most dominant in national employment centres and suburban areas of city regions. Creative social groups undoubtedly represent a strong impact on the regional development, which is seen through GDP per capita. The areas with higher levels of creative occupations are more innovative and their social and economic development more dynamic. The analyses also show a positive correlation between the share of employed people in creative occupations and innovativeness based on the average number of patents per capita.

Demographic characteristics of creative workers: under-activated development potentials in Slovenia?

“…The geography of creative workers, especially their influence on urban and regional development, has been the subject of numerous discussions in the post-industrial period (Ravbar, Bole and Nared 2005;Clifton 2008;Hansen and Niedomysl 2009;Ravbar 2011;Uršič 2016). Even though psychologists have already developed the appropriate tools for measuring an individual's creativity (Kim 2006), urban and regional studies still find it very difficult to determine who a creative worker actually is because of a lack of this kind of psychological data on different spatial levels (Madanipour 2011).…”

Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

“…It is an extremely centralized and attractive environment for investment and development (Ravbar 2009(Ravbar , 2011). Ljubljana's rapid development, which is reflected in investments, the labor market, and residents' mobility (Ravbar 2009;Bole 2011;Bole et al 2012;Gabrovec and Razpotnik Visković 2012), was followed by suburbanization (Nared 2007;Nared et al 2012).…”

Population aging in Slovenia: A spatial perspective

“…This primarily concerns the gradual emptying of settlements, especially in strategically sensitive areas of the country, the degradation of infrastructure and architectural and cultural heritage, the abandonment of farming and the overgrowth of the cultural landscape, and so on. Not least of all, this also involves the loss of the creative potential of these areas (see Ravbar 2011Ravbar , 2012. If all of these consequences were economically evaluated, they would surely be even more alarming and have more long-term negative effects than the issue of financial sustainability of, for example, the retirement and healthcare systems, which has recently been discussed the most.…”