Régénération culturelle et développement de clusters créatifs : l’exemple de l’agglomération du Grand Manchester

Since the 1960s, the Greater Manchester metropolitan area has faced a traditional textile activity decline. Thanks to the capitalist families entrepreneurship, the Manchester conurbation has refocused metropolitan economy on new service activities (banks, higher education, research, advertising, television production...) and has boosted its creative and artistic milieu. The objective of the Manchester public authorities is to help these emerging activities development. So, they have launched with private actors several operations of industrial districts cultural regeneration and the creation of creative and cultural industries network organizations. If the growth of the cultural economy is very important, partnerships between creative industries actors remain very limited.