Silvia Cerisola

• Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano

L’argomentazione alla base del contributo si fonda sull’idea che il patrimonio culturale non debba essere considerato come un fardello che grava sulle disponibilità economiche pubbliche, da preservare per esclusivo “dovere morale”, ma che debba essere valorizzato come efficace e rilevante motore dello sviluppo economico dei territori.

Despite the large attention given to regional disparities, a conceptual framework simultaneously linking the inter- and intra-regional development processes over time is still missing. A vast set of empirical analyses on their trends indeed exists. In most cases, it witnesses the presence of the famous Williamson’s inverted U-shaped relation betwee...

Cultural heritage and local attractiveness entertain an inextricable relationship. Cultural visitors and tourists are willing to discover and admire different, unique, and outstanding forms of culture and local inhabitants recognize themselves in the symbolic meanings and values carried by their heritage, which inspires proudness and sense of belon...

Reindustrialization is one of the transformations European economies are expected to go through. It was suggested by the European political institutions as one of the strategies to counteract the productivity stagnation of the last 20-30 years. What is advocated by the European Institutions is a modern reindustrialization, through technological upg...

This paper draws on the concept of territorial capital as a set of local, tangible as well as intangible, public as well as private assets that characterizes territories and represents an area’s potential in terms of local, human, artificial, organizational, relational, and/or cognitive competitiveness. This of course encompasses cultural heritage....

Following the hype that has been given to culture as trigger and enhancer of local economic performance in the last 20 years, the cultural character of cities is considered as a strategic strength and opportunity that can favour the economic system of the entire regions in which the cities are located. According to this perspective, this paper expl...

After a long period of deindustrialization, Europe faces ‘the need to reverse the declining role of industry’, as the European Union officially claims, to relaunch productivity. Despite this strong political claim, scientifically sound analyses on whether a reindustrialization process takes place, and if it is accompanied by a relaunch of productiv...

An important channel through which less developed European countries have grown over the past twenty years is through the industrial transformation of their economies from low to higher value-added activities. The aim of the paper is to address the role of industrial transformation on regional imbalances, by analysing the different components of in...

Cultural heritage has been recognized as fundamental for local development. In particular, some recent works have highlighted the role of sophisticated transmission channels of this relationship, i.e. local creativity and cosmopolitan identity. Following a territorial perspective, the present work aims at combining the two approaches, in the belief...

Following the hype that has been given to culture and creativity as triggers and enhancers of local economic performance in the last 20 years, this work originally contributes to the literature with the objective of assessing the impact of cultural and creative cities (CCCs) on the economic output of their regions. In this sense, the cultural and c...

The potential role of cultural heritage in local development has been extensively recognized, both at the academic and institutional level. Its conservation and valorization, however, have been at the center of a lively debate between those who see preservation policies as a mere moral duty and those who see them as part of a wider forward-looking...

While the allocation of regional assets has been theoretically and empirically analysed in regional growth theories, the subsequent logical step on how such allocation affects regional inequalities has not found direct quantitative validation. This paper tries to fill this gap by presenting an original simulation able to capture the relative weight...

The interest toward the supposed trade-off between efficiency and equity has strongly come back to the fore within the European Union (EU) after the 2008 economic crisis. The worsening of spatial economic imbalances, in fact, opened again the debate whether the European institutions should focus their budget allocations on core areas or on peripher...

A thorough investigation of the relationship between the deepening and the widening processes of EU integration and the historic evolution of regional disparities is missing in the related vast existing inductive literature. This usually focuses on EU15 countries or Central and Eastern European Countries, generally involves relatively short and rec...

The present chapter reviews the recent studies of the ABC department surrounding the role of cultural heritage and creativity on local economic development. The research line covers the interpretation of culture as a territorial asset, its multifaceted dimensions, and impact on local development. An innovative definition of cultural capital was pro...

The work aims at investigating the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development by putting forward the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. This idea is econometrically tested, showing how cultural heritage - through its inspirational role on different creative talents -...

The European Union has been adopting so-called macro-regional strategies since 2009. Its final goal is to develop an integrated framework to address common challenges and opportunities of particular transnational areas. This paper identifies such growth opportunities in the most recently established macro-area: the European Union Strategy for the A...

The book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development by introducing the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. The book econometrically verifies this idea and demonstrates that cultural heritage, through its inspirational role on different creative talents, ge...

In the last ten years, the European Union has devoted specific attention and resources to the establishment of macro-regional strategies, with the objective of joining together transnational areas to favour the effective and organized management of common challenges. In most macro-regions, however, the identification of strategies to increase compe...

In the last ten years the European Union has devoted specific attention and resources to the establishment of so-called macro-regional strategies, with the aim of joining together particular transnational areas according to a functional rather than administrative perspective. The present work is the first one that – focusing on the youngest EU macr...

The importance of culture, history, religion, and identity in the potential of any territory to develop is now generally accepted. Place and culture are indeed persistently intertwined. Moreover, the potentially positive impact of cultural heritage on economic development has gained more and more attention throughout different disciplines. Such imp...

en The role of creativity in local economic development has been widely discussed. The evidence on this linkage is, however, mixed. This work tries to highlight the nexus by taking into consideration a new aspect, that is, the multidimensional nature of creativity and the potential synergic and complementary effects of creative talents of different...

Creativity is currently at the centre of a lively scientific debate in which scholars from different fields are engaged. The interest on such topic is mainly due to its potential positive impact on economic development; thus, understanding the determinants of creativity becomes important in terms of policy decisions. Although the existing literatur...

It is now almost 3 years since the very first time I met Professor Camagni in his office, at Politecnico di Milano. It was an early March afternoon, and by then I could not have any idea of what would follow.

Eyesreg, vol. 7(3), May 2017 http://www.eyesreg.it/2017/talenti-creativi-multipli-quali-determinanti-a-livello-locale/

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