This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. This work was conducted as part of the OECD’s Local Employment and Economic Development (LEED) Programme with financial support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
This report was co-ordinated and co-drafted by Ekaterina Travkina, Co-ordinator, Culture and Creative Industries in the Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation Division (CFE/LESI), Anna Rubin, Counsellor/Policy Analyst, CFE/LESI, Prof. Pierluigi Sacco, Senior Advisor on Culture to the OECD, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Chieti-Pescara "Gabriele D'Annunzio", Martha Bloom, Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and Tahsin Mehdi, former Junior Economist CFE/LESI. Karen Maguire, Head of the CFE/LESI Division managing the LEED Programme provided overall supervision and extensive comments. Authors are grateful to Alexander Lembcke, Head of Unit, Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, CFE for guidance and advice on statistical data and measurement approaches. Authors are also grateful to Dr Montserrat Pareja Eastway, University of Barcelona and Dr Joanna Woronkowicz, Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, for substantial contributions to Chapters 3, 4 and 5. Authors are grateful to Britta Söderqvist, Director Gothenburg Museums and Kunsthalle, Sweden, Joana Sousa Monteiro, Director, Lisbon City Museum, Portugal, Shain Shapiro, Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Music Ecosystems, and Shazia Custodio Riaz Iqbal, student, Valencia Berklee College of Music, for their contributions.
This report is part of the OECD-EU joint project on Culture, Creative Sectors and Local Development. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Catherine Magnant, Head, Cultural Policy Unit, Barbara Stacher, Senior Expert, Maciej W. Hofman, former Policy Officer, Marta Jimenez Pumares, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission for their contribution to the project and constructive feedback on the development of the report. The OECD would also like to thank Marta Beck Domzalska, former Senior Expert, Culture and Sport Statistics, Eurostat, European Commission for her participation in project activities and advice on culture measurement approaches.
This report also benefits from four case studies in Emilia Romagna (Italy), Flanders (Belgium), Glasgow City Region, Scotland (United Kingdom) and Klaipėda County and the municipalities of Klaipėda, Neringa and Palanga (Lithuania). Authors are grateful to regional and local partners and stakeholders for their contributions. The report also benefits from discussions at the 78th and 79th Sessions of the OECD’s LEED Directing Committee, and from four policy seminars held in 2020-2021 as part of the OECD-EU project and in co-operation with the International Council of Museums (ICOM), World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF) and Sound Diplomacy.