The Potential of creative cities in Lithuania
ENEvaluation of creative cities by means of indexes helps to evaluate the efficiency of creative sectors, points out the strrengths and weaknesses and offers solutions for those cities that seek to become creative cities. Seeking to evaluate the cities of Kaunas, Klaipėda and Vilnius according to the index of creative cities, qualitative research was conducted. The nature of the qualitative research was determined by the fact that the research methods and data measurement means were formed by the authors Hartley, Potts et al. (2012) in the course of the study “CCI-CCI Creative City Index”. To determine the creative city index the authors use the analysis of statistical data. The results of the research revealed that comparing Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda cities, the highest creative index is that of Vilnius; 1.5 times lower index was that of Kaunas, and almost twice as low index was that of Klaipeda. The results were compared with the results of Hartley, Potts et al. (2012), which revealed a tendency that Lithuanian creative city indexes were similar to the aforementioned cities. Keywords: Creative Cities; Creativity; Creative Industries, Creative City Index; Creative Economy.
