Contrast II Global Study
This report collects and analyses the results of the Contrast II study on Cultural and Creative Industries and Sectors (CCISs) and innovation. It is structured in five main parts: introduction, description of the study results, in-depth analysis of the study results, conference report and final synthesis.
The beginning of the Results part begins with an initial contextualization (Regional contexts) of the territories analysed, taking into account, firstly, secondary data on territories, population and economy and, secondly, innovation, offering an overview with data extracted from the Global Innovation Index.
The report then goes into the core results of the content of the study. This section addresses all the relevant dimensions for the study of innovation and CCSIs combining policy information and agents involved in each territory with their specific innovation practices and organizations in the cultural and creative sector. This section provides a descriptive view (graphs and charts, descriptive statistics...), drawing on two main tools: the questionnaire to regional coordinators, on regional contexts, and the questionnaire to CCSIs agents, on the innovation they produce.
Thus, the section "CCSIs monitorization and innovation" reflects on the existence of tools and agents that monitor CCSIs and/or innovation; the section "Regional strategic approaches" it reflects on the type of strategic approaches of administrations; section "Innovation environment" it reflects on actors and types of tools used in support of the sector and its innovation; the section "Innovation features" reflects on what kind of innovations are made and for what reasons, and at the section "Measuring results, impacts and innovation value" it reflects on the positive social, economic and environmental externalities produced by the sector from its innovation.
In the third part (In-depth analysis), an interpretative perspective is provided. Two large dimensions structure this part: Trends, typologies and singularities, on one hand, and Innovation measurement in CCSIs: scope and limitations.
In the section on the measurement of innovation in CCSIs, specific issues related to measurement in CCSIs are addressed through the results obtained in the organizations? survey, assessing how the design and used indicators have functioned.
The fourth part presents the report of the CCIs and Innovation Contrast II conference, an essential part of the project´s reflection and discussion process. This involved a comparison of the results, and served to gain a more detailed understanding of the innovation ecosystems in the regions studied and to broaden specific views on innovation in the CCISs.
Finally, the fifth part, the Final Synthesis, concludes the study by reviewing the initial objectives and synthesising the key results obtained throughout the research process.
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