The Arts Incubators, Influence on the Development of System Innovations

Abstract

This paper discusses the arts incubators’ influence on the development of system innovations and on the ensuring the sustainability of the creativity process in the creative industries’ enterprises. The influence of cultural and creative industries on the economy development is analysed in the article. The analysis of system innovations’ specific features and importance for creative industries is presented. The paper analyses the arts incubators as a part of creative city and as a creative cluster. The factors for the sustainability of creativity process are identified as well as the role of the arts incubators when ensuring the sustainability of system innovations development. Clustering analysis of Vilnius arts incubators was made and the proposals how the existing arts incubators can contribute to the development of system innovations in creative industries were presented.