Technological innovation in creative clusters. The case of laser in conservation of artworks in Florence

Luciana Lazzeretti (), Francesco Capone () and Tommaso Cinti ()
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Tommaso Cinti: Department of Social and Business Studies, University of Siena

No 1002, Institut Metròpoli Working Paper in economics from Institut Metròpoli

Abstract: The field of laser application to the restoration and cleaning of cultural assets is amongst the most thriving developments of recent times. Ablative laser technological systems are able to clean and protect inestimable works of art subject to atmospheric agents and degradation over time. This new technology, which has been developing for the last forty year, is now available to restorers and has received a significant success all over Europe. An important contribution in the process of laser innovation has been carried out in Florence by local actors belonging to a creative cluster. The objects of the analysis are the genesis of this innovation in this local Florentine context, and the relationships among the main actors who have contributed in it. The study investigates how culture can play a part in the generation of ideas and innovations, and which are the creative environments that can favour it. In this context, the issue of laser technologies for the restoration of cultural heritage has been analysed as a case study in the various paths taken by the Creative Capacity of the Culture (CCC).

Keywords: innovation; creative cluster; art restoration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 O31 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-04
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