Creative Economy is a relatively recent concept, which still gives rise to different interpretations, but has been gaining increasing attention and support from governments of several countries and international organizations, having become an important part of global trade, in which the participation of developing countries has been growing rapidly: since 2015, value of exports of creative goods and services from this group of countries exceed that from developed ones. However, Brazil has not been taking advantage of this growth, being absent from the list of major exporters of such items, even if we consider only developing countries, which indicates the existence of relevant barriers to the internationalization of Brazilian firms of the Creative Economy. Thus, general objective of this study is to explore how stakeholders of Brazilian firms of the Creative Economy perceive barriers to the internationalization of their products and services. To reach this objective, it was done a multiple case study involving three small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which produce and export creative goods (jewelry, accessories and decorative objects). Results indicate that, overall, internal barriers are perceived as the most relevant by the analyzed firms, mainly functional barriers (derived from their constraints of human resources and productive capacity), as also as price barriers. Among the external barriers, in addition to the economic ones, the governmental ones stand out, indicating the need for improvement in Brazilian current export incentive programs and regulations.