Classification of sub-sectors in creative industry for regional economic development

Abstract

Creative industry represents a range of industrial activities that utilize creativity, skills, and personal ability for job creation and economic development of region. A critical step to develop and sustain the competitiveness of the industries is identification process of the sub sectors of the creative industry in a particular country or region. To obtain a better clsassification and region development priorities, this study adopts location quotient (LQ) and ant colony optimization (ACO) approaches, taking Jember as a case in this study. With many indicators, LQ method can classifiy a sector into more than one classification but it describe region demograph. ACO method have an acurate result of classification with many indicators but it doesn’t describe the demography of the region. The use of LQ-ACO method can support the government to develop a more feasible classification for the creative industry of sub sector and region priorities.