| By: |
Luciana Lazzeretti (Department of Business Economics, University of Florence);
Francesco Capone (Department of Business Economics, University of Florence);
Tommaso Cinti (Department of Social and Business Studies, University of Siena) |
| Abstract: |
The field of laser application to the restoration and cleaning of cultural
assets is amongst the most thriving developments of recent times. Ablative
laser technological systems are able to clean and protect inestimable works of
art subject to atmospheric agents and degradation over time. This new
technology, which has been developing for the last forty year, is now
available to restorers and has received a significant success all over Europe.
An important contribution in the process of laser innovation has been carried
out in Florence by local actors belonging to a creative cluster. The objects
of the analysis are the genesis of this innovation in this local Florentine
context, and the relationships among the main actors who have contributed in
it. The study investigates how culture can play a part in the generation of
ideas and innovations, and which are the creative environments that can favour
it. In this context, the issue of laser technologies for the restoration of
cultural heritage has been analysed as a case study in the various paths taken
by the Creative Capacity of the Culture (CCC). |
| Keywords: |
innovation, creative cluster, art restoration |
| JEL: |
O31 R11 L14 |
| Date: |
2010–04 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esg:wpierm:1002&r=cul |