Opening cultural data: a driver of growth?
This study considers how the sharing and reuse of cultural data can support new services, wider access and more informed relationships between institutions and audiences.
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Surveys that make culture’s changing conditions visible.
Explore the Forum Avignon research resource: studies and proposals on financing, digital transformation, cultural participation and the relationship between culture and territory.
About the collection
A shelf of evidence for public questions.
These surveys were developed through collaborative working groups bringing together economic, social, institutional and creative perspectives. Read them as historical research records: each study examines a specific pressure or possibility facing culture and the creative industries.
Selected studies
Research highlights
Intellectual property in the digital single market
An examination of how copyright frameworks can remain adaptable while giving artists, organisations and audiences a clearer basis for digital exchange.
Download the studyCulture and creative sectors in the digital age
A study of hybrid models, changing consumer habits and the practical choices facing cultural and creative entrepreneurs.
Download the studyGeneration hashtag: new content in a digital age
This international survey explores how younger audiences discover, watch, listen to and participate in cultural content across connected services.
Download the studyCulture and tax in Europe
A comparative look at taxation and the policy tools used to support creation, cultural access and the diversity of cultural activity.
Download the studyBusiness and data culture
The report explores how organisations understand, govern and use data as digital practices become part of cultural and economic decision-making.
Download the studyCreators, producers, distributors and audiences
An analysis of the cultural value chain and the shifting balance of influence between creators, companies, platforms, public authorities and audiences.
Download the studyHybridising cultural and creative business models
This research looks at how digital tools and new forms of distribution change the ways cultural sectors create, share and sustain value.
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Current pageFinancing & economic models
Research on investment, taxation, value creation and the conditions that allow cultural activity to endure.
Innovation & digital
Studies of data, intellectual property, connected devices, discovery and evolving cultural practices.
Territorial change
Research on cultural investment, creative cities, local development and social cohesion.
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What is included in the surveys resource?
The resource includes international studies, comparative research and proposals covering cultural policy, creative economies, digital change and territorial development.
How are the studies organised?
The collection is grouped around financing and economic models, innovation and digital practices, and territorial attractiveness and social cohesion.
Are the studies recent?
The collection documents work published across several years. Dates are shown clearly so readers can distinguish historical evidence from later research.
Can I download the original reports?
Where a source document remains available, each entry includes a download link to the resourced report.
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