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Facing globalization and increased trade: Catalonia's evolution from industrial region to knowledge and creative economy

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Catalonia is experiencing a crucial transformation of its productive model. The main changes are exemplified by an intense process of substitution of the traditional aspects (low-technology manufacturing base and orientation towards internal markets) for a model of development characterized by the combined importance of creative industries and high-tech manufacturing activities, and oriented to external markets. The new competitive bases of the regional economy rely on three factors: urbanization and network economies, changes in the productive structure and the generation of innovations linked with export capacity. Resumen. Cataluna esta experimentando una transformacion crucial de su modelo productivo. Los cambios principales estan ejemplificados por un proceso intenso de sustitucion de los aspectos tradicionales (base manufacturera de baja tecnologia y orientacion hacia mercados internos) por un modelo de desarrollo caracterizado por una importancia combinada de industrias creativas y actividades manufactureras de alta tecnologia, y orientado a mercados externos. Las nuevas bases competitivas de la economia regional dependen de tres factores: urbanizacion y economias de red, cambios en la estructura productiva y la generacion de innovacion vinculada a la capacidad exportadora.