L’organizzazione dello spazio di business tra politica cultura e territorio

Economic geographers interested in Cultural Economy claim that Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) have a distinct geography, one that is dynamic and that has until recently been poorly documented and under-explained. The key role of public actors, the unusual organisational forms of cultural businesses and institutions, the project-based nature of business processes entailing the development of fast-changing and agile networks, and finally the high mobility of the labour market, are all variables addressing specific spatial dynamics influencing the way cultural productions take place in territories and cities. Collectively these factors serve to create a troubling ‘object’ that policy-makers seek to understand and devise policies to govern them. Especially, in recent years the promotion of creative sectors has been implemented as a key driver in european policies for development and innovation (COM, 2012), emphasizing the role of networks and interaction at a local level as the key to enhancing social and regional development. However, when examining closer these policies we see that they often lack a deeper understanding of the substantial spatial dynamics of business networks and how they relate to the surrounding environment especially considering its institutional and social forms. In this thesis i am interested in reviewing the changing terrain of analyses of the CCI in order to turn an analytic focus onto the industrial network approach (Hakansson et al, 2009). I mean to provide new insights on creative industries from an interacted and networked perspective, especially by drawing on the analysis of the specific interorganisational settings that exists within the industry and their space-related features. Moreover, I point to debate the complex relationship between policy action and the issue of business network formation and development, interpreting the category of space as main driver of the analysis.