CREATIVE ECONOMY IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAIS

The development of a country or a region is increasingly dependent on innovations of both technologies and renewable resources and ideas, but the latter, when linked to creativity, imagination and innovation, opens new possibilities for growth and development. Thus, the work seeks to analyze the participation of the creative economy in the municipalities of the State of Minas Gerais. The work uses data from the RAIS and the analysis period is the year 2012. The results reveals that the state of Minas Gerais has 863,969 creative jobs spread across 105,615 establishments, the vast majority of them small. Most of the workforce has degrees of instruction through Elementary and High School Completion. Of the 853 municipalities that make up the state, the ones that stand out having activities of the creative chain are located mainly in the Metropolitan, Mata, Campo das Verentes and Sul de Minas Regions, with activities mainly concentrated in the region of the capital.