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Econcult is a research unit which, since the mid-1990s, has specialised in the analysis of cultural activities and collective actions to promote cultural and creative sectors. We are interested in all those social and territorial dynamics that interact in some way with the symbolic dimension, creativity or innovation. Our research projects focus on topics such as cultural policies, the relationship between culture and development, creative territories, music, the publishing sector, theatre, heritage, museums, the economy of languages and cultural tourism.

Research over the last 20 years has led us to affirm that all cultural and creative activities, whether or not they are market-based, have a transformative capacity on people and territory and can favour development, satisfying both the cultural rights of citizens and improving the structural conditions of economic growth, shifting its frontier of possibilities.