OECD Culture and Local Development.pdf - PACA
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ISBN 92-64-00990-6<br />
CULTURE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT<br />
© <strong>OECD</strong> 2005<br />
Chapter 3<br />
Promoting local development<br />
by creating cultural products<br />
This chapter sheds new analytical light on culture’s impact on local<br />
development, seeing the source of development in the preparation of cultural<br />
products that are produced in a given territory but consumed elsewhere. It shows<br />
why the existence of cultural products, combining aesthetic <strong>and</strong> utilitarian<br />
dimensions, is linked to a given territory, <strong>and</strong> how the producers of such products<br />
tend to cluster together in such areas. It then highlights the concept of “cultural<br />
district”, which can be likened to that of an industrial district, but which displays<br />
its own conditions for viability: a capacity to renew <strong>and</strong> maintain product originality,<br />
a capacity to adapt <strong>and</strong> pass along traditional know-how, the role of collective<br />
intellectual property rights, etc.<br />
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