Supply and fruition of culture in Lombardy

Strategic leverages and development factors

Client: IReR, Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia
Research team: Alessandra Casarico (Scientific supervisor), Francesca Battasoglio, Francesco D'Amuri, Fabrizio Fracchia, Luigi Gigli, Luca Micheletto, Marina Nicoli, Massimo Occhiena, Giuseppe Surdi, Roberto Artoni, Stefano Baia Curioni, Severino Salvemini

The research investigates the cultural industries sector operating in the region in order to:

  • Deepen the level of knowledge of the cultural industries sector in terms of its production structure, financing methods, regulatory and legislative framework, and the needs of the sector's operators;
  • Identify the potential objectives of regional policy for the development and promotion of cultural industries, to foster production, employment development of the sector and enhance territorial vocations in a sustainable development perspective;
  • Develop application proposals and modes of action that can be used by DG Culture in formulating policy lines.

Methodologically, the survey was structured according to three different types of analysis: economic, legal and qualitative.
More specifically, the economic analysis offers a quantitative analysis of the demand and supply of the cultural industry in Lombardy and its evolution over the past decade and an analysis of the modes of public and private funding to support cultural industries.
Through the legal analysis, it was first possible to delimit the concept of cultural activity from a legislative standpoint, in order to identify the more specific thematic scope of "cultural industry." The EU, national and regional regulations for the promotion and financing of cultural industries were then explored in depth.
The qualitative analysis was in the form of a qualitative and descriptive survey, through conducting a number of interviews with leading practitioners, in order to understand the critical junctures for the development of the cultural industries sector.