TRANSFERÊNCIA DE CONHECIMENTO NAS ACTIVIDADES CULTURAIS E CRIATIVAS: NOTAS COMPARATIVAS DAS REGIÕES DO ESPAÇO ATLÂNTICO

Abstract

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES: COMPARATIVE NOTES FROM REGIONS OF THE ATLANTIC AREA. In the late XXth century, the importance of the “third mission” of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) – their socioeconomic engagement with the social tissue – saw the need to promote several mechanisms of knowledge transfer on a political and institutional level. Nonetheless, many of these mechanisms were designed for industries that share little of the Cultural and Creative Activities (CCA) sector’s specificities. This work stems from a transnational project – 4H-CREAT – that seeks to analyse the way in which cultural and creative activities can be engaged with the remaining political and social actors (HEI, Political Instances and Civil Society). In this article, we seek to explore the ways in which knowledge transfer and valuation can be done within the Cultural and Creative sector, in relation to HEI, narrowing on the regions participating in project 4H-CREAT (Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Andaluzia, Avilès, Bretagne, Pays de la Loire Southern and Eastern Ireland, Southwest Scotland). We sought thus to do a literature review, in order to emphasise the above stated specificities, as well as a statistical analysis, focusing on the period of 2012 to 2015, and a policy analysis, with a focus on the period of 2000 to 2017, of the various regions from Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland and the UK involved. We then discuss specific pathways that can be undertaken by HEI to that effect – promoting collaboration in the development of curricula, fomenting spaces of discussion, as well as directing cultural education to the needs of CCA, amongst others. Despite the level of generality of these measures, we argue they can serve to further an important debate on multiple forms of value generated within the CCA and the forms of involvement of agents with HEI.