Functional elements of the cultural products innovation system in Iran

Innovation systems are designed and established with the aim of directing and organizing resources together with institutions. In the cultural industries, however, this matter has faced serious obstacles and problems, including failure to take into account the key role of human capital, causing innovations to be overlooked or harmed to the point that an image of industries that derive little benefit from them has been formed.

This research was undertaken to find a framework for arranging the functional dimensions of the cultural products innovation system and, while reviewing the limited existing literature in this field, produced content on the basis of a grounded-theory strategy. These dimensions were extracted step by step after the coding of interviews. The statistical population of this research consisted of specialists, experts, and holders of knowledge and experience in the field of cultural industries, and the proposed mechanism was obtained from nineteen in-depth interviews. Next, through interpretive structural modeling, the relations among the functional dimensions and their hierarchical levels were explained so that the information extracted from it would contribute to the development of the functional framework proposed by this research. Finally, this research states that the functional framework of the cultural products innovation system has 35 components (categories) and 9 applied dimensions (category groups), including legislation, strategic direction, development of macro-level infrastructure, resource management, creation and development of knowledge and experience, dissemination and sharing of knowledge and experience, culture-building, economic value creation, and market-making.

 

 

Table of contents:

 

Abstract

1- Introduction and statement of the problem

2- Theoretical literature and background of the subject

1-2 - Innovation system

2-2 - Functions of the innovation system

3-2 - Cultural industries

4-2 - Research background

3- Research method

4- Research findings

1-4 - Description of the findings

2-4 - Analysis of the findings

3-4 - Functional framework of the cultural industries innovation system

1-3-4 - Legislation

2-3-4 - Culture-building

3-3-4 - Development of macro-level infrastructure

4-3-4 - Strategic direction

5-3-4 - Resource management

6-3-4 - Creation and development of knowledge and experience

7-3-4 - Dissemination and sharing of knowledge and experience

8-3-4 - Economic value creation

9-3-4 - Market-making

5- Conclusion and recommendations

6- References