A abertura internacional dos países e seus impactos na economia criativa – China “un ponto fora da curva”

The main objective of this article is to analyze the hypothesis that the economic freedom of a nation can, in a certain way, influence the creative potential of a given nation. Noting the UN's warning that the most creative nations are those who have been adding more value to their economy (in terms of gross domestic product), while experiencing lower employment rates and preparing for the impacts of the new technologies, which replace old professions and cause idleness of the workforce and, additionally, the belief and pre-existing evidence in the literature that "free" nations are environments more conducive to creativity, what is being proposed and studied here is the hypothesis that an economically opened nation produces a greater diversity of thought and that this diversity constitutes raw material for creativity and intellectual production in creative business. Adopting the criteria set forth in the UN / UNTACD Report on the Creative Economy and the different pillars / variables that make up the Heritage Economic Freedom Index, this text tries to show, based on the institutional theory (IBV), that an open nation produces and exports more products that come from the new economy - creative, shared, sustainable, cyclical, digital - and which involves sectors such as fashion, design, games, information technology, automation, cinema and visual production, among others, when compared to the most economically closed countries. The results were obtained when comparing data from 100 nations, which counted both with index of economic freedom and with data of GDP (in US$) from the Creative Economy, known and published through public reports. Given the discovery of clear indications that do not reject the central hypothesis formulated, and that, therefore, minimally it makes some sense, new hypotheses foster a second phase of the project, which seeks to investigate from secondary data, evidence that peculiarities, such as: size and culture, specific production related to technology issues, incentives to national creative production that end up functioning as barriers to "foreign creativity economy", make China a unique giant which escapes the rule observed in the main study. Hence, we can say that China, as a point off the curve revealing itself to be a "reasonably closed and considerably creative" outlier, becomes a considerable case to be explored. O presente artigo tem como principal objetivo analisar a hipótese de que a liberdade econômica de uma nação pode