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increasingly popular within public policies in cities and regions for a number of reasons
ranging from positive social and economic impacts to culture-based innovation and
spill-over effects in other sectors of activity
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.They are seen as reflecting the identity
of the place, the creativity of its people and not merely commodities similar to any
other commercial product.
But despite the acknowledged relevance of the arts for the whole society, the
economic crisis as well as globalisation and technological developments are
challenging the arts ecosystem and demanding new avenues for this sector to evolve.
1.2 Difficulties in accessing external sources of funding
Mainly relying on public expenditure, the CCS face difficulties in accessing funding at
a time of budget constraints stemming from the economic crisis. Budget cuts in public
administrations all over Europe undermine cultural services and structures’ ability to
encourage and promote artistic creation. There is therefore a need for arts
organisations to turn to alternative means of funding, private funding in particular.
However, in most of the European countries, state engagement in supporting the
arts has long been sizeable and regular so that the cultural sectors do not benefit
from a tradition of private fundraising as in the United States and are therefore not
fully equipped to get access to funding opportunities through private investment.
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Creative spill-over can be described by “a process by which the interactions between artists, creative
professionals and industries and/or cultural organisations contribute to economic and/or social innovation
in other sectors of the economy or society.The spill-over process takes place when creativity originating
from culture and creative professionals and industries influences innovation in sectors where culture and
creative professionals do not usually evolve” (Kern, 2014). NESTA has identified three types of spillovers:
knowledge spillovers product spillovers and network spillovers ((Chapain, Cooke, De Propris, Macneill,
Mateos-Garcia, 2010).
CreArt Exhibition 2014 “White Noise BlackWords” inVilniaus rotuse,Vilnius
