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Creative Assets and Cultural Development: How Can Research Inform Nonprofit-Commercial Partnerships?

<P>In the issues closing essay, the author examines how research in the arts and culture can help&nbsp;to find new ways of thinking about cultural production and policy including the production, financing, marketing, distribution, operation, consumption, and social roles of the arts and entertainment. To help guide future research, she contemplates the following: </P>
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<LI>What kind of partnerships, collaborations, or alliances can be forged will depend on what task or function is in question. </li>
<LI>Where and how to secure additional resources is a frequent incentive for interaction. However, the currency of resources is variable.&nbsp;It could be money, talent, expertise, distribution systems, market access, publicity/visibility, or policy influence. </li>
<LI>Although both the nonprofit and the commercial realms have an interest in intellectual property protections, those interests may not be identical.</LI></UL>

In the issues closing essay, the author examines how research in the arts and culture can help&nbsp;to find new ways of thinking about cultural production and policy including the production, financing, marketing, distribution, operation, consumption, and social roles of the arts and entertainment.

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Periodical (article)
Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
Volume 29, Number 2
Publisher Reference: 
Heldref Publications
Old URL: 
http://www.artsusa.org/NAPD/modules/resourceManager/publicsearch.aspx?id=9985
Research Abstract
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Categories: 
Private Sector
Professional Development
Funding
Community Development
Is this an Americans for the Arts Publications: 
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