Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Public Policy Analysis Development Author(s) Sabina Bogilović University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia Pevcin Primoz, Title How a small City is stimulating Creativity and Innovation: The Case Study of Ljubljana and selected European Cities File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The objective of this paper is to unpack the creative city incentives by exploring how different levels of creativity (e.g., upper ground and underground) can be stimulated creativity in small cities, where as the main focus is set on Ljubljana. Moreover, we wanted to clarify the type of creative city (i.e., technological-innovative, cultural-intellectual, cultural-technological, and technological organizational cities) Ljubljana is. In order to provide better interpretation of the results, we compared Ljubljana to other small to medium sized European cities Bratislava, Tallinn, and Edinburg. The empirical part of the paper utilizes predominantly case study approach, as it allowed us to provide in-depth research of particular object, taking into account multiple dimensions and complementation of various qualitative and quantitative research methods. Based on secondary data of cultural and creative cities monitor from European Commission (2017) and European Smart Cities (2014, 2015), we provide evidence that Ljubljana and Bratislava share the same type of creative city, as they both belong to cultural-intellectual type and stimulate via both levels of creativity (under and upper ground). In contrast, results show that Edinburg and Tallinn stimulate creativity in the city mostly via upper ground levels. Moreover, the results indicate that Tallinn is more technological-innovative, whereas Edinburg is becoming more a cultural technological type of creative city.
