Cultural Resources and Regional Development: The Case of the Cultural Legacy of Watchmaking

Leila Kebir and Olivier Crevoisier

No 10-08, GRET Publications and Working Papers from GRET Group of Research in Territorial Economy, University of Neuchâtel

Abstract: Cultural resources are today the object of considerable attention in regional economics. Ground for new forms of innovation these resources have given rise to numerous works aiming at understanding the emergence and organisation of culture based economic activities and at identifying the role of these activities in regional development and urban planning. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which resources, and in particular cultural resources, are incorporated into production processes on the one hand, and the consequences on the resources of doing so on the other hand. Becoming an economic resource, a cultural “object” (symbol, image, cultural heritage, traditional know-how, etc.) becomes embedded within commercial relationships. The question we address here is what are the causes and consequences of this commodification of culture for the production systems, the customers and for the local communities which put a certain number of their constitutive elements into play.

Keywords: Cultural; Resources; Regional Development; Watchmaking Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 E0 L0 O1 Q0 Q1 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2008-10
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Published in European Planning Studies, October 2008, Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 1189-1205

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