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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.
Acknowledgements
We thank Frédéric Quiquerez of the Institute for Research Group for Territorial Economy of the University of Neuchâtel for his help in finding and handling figures.
Notes
See for example the debates on the cultural turn in geography (Crang, Citation1997; Castree, Citation2004; Hadjimichalis, Citation2001).
Our translation.
This way of stating the problem of resources and innovation is very similar to that of technological creation (Kline & Rosenberg, Citation1986; Gaffard, Citation1990). It raises the question of innovation and resources based on heritage on the one hand, and a projection of the entrepreneur's project for the future on the other.
Our translation.
In this sense, we are distancing ourselves from the hypothesis of perfect rationality that implies full alignment between the information (that emerges from the environment) and the reality of this environment. The perceptions and the forms of understanding are crucial when identifying what is a resource and what is not.
At the time, the brand Ebel underwent considerable renewal on the basis of the slogan “The architects of time”, and a well-profiled line of products from the design and marketing points of view. This idea was linked to the work of Corbusier, one of whose first buildings in La Chaux-de-Fonds is this company's public relations centre.
Mechanical complications are functions added to the basic time provision, such as chronometer, the phases of the moon, bells, additional time zones, etc.
Source: World Intellectual Property Organization.
