The opening session at the seminar 'Cultural and Creative Sectors at the Lisbon Agenda', 31 October 2007 was on 'A research agenda for culture - statistics and indicators'.
In recent years there is a growing necessity for more suitable statistical tools, aiming at a better knowledge of the cultural and creative sectors and of its economic weight. Accordingly, the first session is intended to put forward future research priorities in the EU. Speakers:
Marta Beck (Cultural Statistics Expert of Eurostat/European Commission - Luxemburg) “Development of cultural statistics in the EU”
Yngve Rosenblad (Leading Statistician in Cultural Statistics - Statistics Estonia) “Culture Statistics in Estonia: the Experiences of Building a New System for Cultural Statistics in a Small Country”
José Soares Neves (OAC Researcher/President of the Task Force for Cultural Statistics - CSE - Portugal) “Cultural or creative statistics? The difficult balance among concepts, policies and resources”
Vesna Copic (Faculty of Social Sciences, University in Ljubljana - Slovenia) “Linkage between national conservatism/autistic modernism and weak cultural policy research”
Carla Bodo (Vice-Chairman of the Associazione per l’Economia della Cultura - Italy) “More transparency in the governance of culture”

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