Abstract Nowadays, relatively high attention of public policies, also from the EU point of view, is paid to creative territories and the promotion of the creative class. However, very few published studies have been conducted about the mobility and behaviour of the creative class in the spatial-development context. To contribute to the deeper research of this issue the paper analyses the results of published empirical studies on the behaviour and mobility of the creative class in various types of territories and compares them with the behaviour and location of the creative class in the Slovak Republic. Subsequently, reflecting the key findings it proposes the public policy recommendations that should contribute to attracting and retaining the creative class as an integral driving force of regional or local development. In the empirical studies, the compared elements were the main research questions / hypotheses and results, the definition of the creative class, used methods, the factors of creative-class migration, and the policy recommendations, if they were proposed. Special attention was devoted to the issues of creative-class behaviour and localisation factors in the Slovak Republic based on the previous research findings as well as our own research results. All studies confirm that the mobility of the creative class is only a little bit higher than that of non-creatives. Among the key factors playing a dominant role in the selection of the actual place of residence are personal trajectories, followed by good employment opportunities. That is why the strategies of public policy should aim at retaining the creative class, fostering the creative and diverse climate by developing new higher-education institutions, new creative-subject incubators, supporting networks and partnerships; then the economic and social benefits of the creative class for the territories may be expected.

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如何吸引和保留创意课

摘要如今，从欧盟的角度来看，公共政策也得到了相对较高的关注，这是对创意领域和创意阶层的促进。但是，关于空间发展背景下创意阶层的流动性和行为的公开研究很少。为了对这一问题进行更深入的研究，本文分析了已发表的有关创意界在各种地区的行为和流动性的实证研究结果，并将其与斯洛伐克共和国的创意界的行为和位置进行了比较。随后，在反映关键发现时，它提出了公共政策建议，这些建议应有助于吸引和保留创意阶层，将其作为区域或地方发展的整体驱动力。在实证研究中 比较的要素是主要的研究问题/假设和结果，创意类别的定义，使用的方法，创意类别迁移的因素以及政策建议（如果已提出）。根据以前的研究结果以及我们自己的研究结果，特别关注了斯洛伐克共和国的创意阶层行为和本地化因素。所有研究都证实，创意阶层的流动性只比非创意阶层的流动性高一点。在选择实际居住地方面起主要作用的关键因素是个人轨迹，其次是良好的就业机会。这就是为什么公共政策的策略应该旨在保留创意阶层，通过发展新的高等教育机构，新的创意学科孵化器，支持网络和伙伴关系，促进创造力和多样性的氛围；那么可以预期该领域的创意阶层的经济和社会利益。