ABSTRACT
The recent debate on culture, creativity, and local development emphasizes the role of culture as a creative ability to generate not merely economic development, but also ideas and innovations (Cooke & Lazzeretti, 2008; Pratt & Jeffcutt, 2009). The studies of the processes by which art and culture are economically improved (Towse, 2003; Ginsburgh & Throsby, 2006) have moved their focus from art heritage to the role of the human factor and the creative class (Florida, 2002).
