How is the digital transformation of the creative economy changing economic and spatial patterns? The case of Hungary

Tamás Egedy

Chapter 15 in Digital Globalization of Creative Industries, 2025, pp 266-282 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Cities are emerging as outstanding destinations for the establishment of the creative economy and play a key role in the development of the sector. This chapter aims to present the theoretical foundations of the subject and to illustrate the development of the urban creative economy in Hungary since the turn of the millennium. Special attention is paid to digitalisation within the creative economy, that is, the transformation of sectors with significant digital content in the creative industries and knowledge-intensive industries. We introduce the development impact of the creative economy and its digital shift via the transformation of the economic spatial pattern in Hungary. Our results show that there is an increasing restructuring of the creative economy in favour of knowledge-intensive industries, with a growing role of info-communication technologies and branches with high digital content. Both the creative industries and the knowledge-intensive industries can be characterised by the process of digitalisation gradually changing the spatial patterns of the economy. There is a steady spatial concentration towards large cities, and the distance from Budapest is becoming an increasingly important factor in economic development. In the long term, urban development and the digitalisation of the creative economy go hand in hand.

Keywords: Creative Economy; Creative Industries; Knowledge-Intensive Industries; ICT; Digitalisation; Hungary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035314768
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