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Cultural heritage, entrepreneurship and local movement. Nordic Networking Event Economics and Built Heritage Hämeenlinna, Finland February 12-13, 2007. Centre for Regional Science - Martin Paju. Starting point Some theoretical aspects Entrepreneurship in a destination context
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Cultural heritage, entrepreneurship and local movement Nordic Networking Event Economics and Built Heritage Hämeenlinna, Finland February 12-13, 2007 Centre for Regional Science - Martin Paju
Starting point Some theoretical aspects Entrepreneurship in a destination context Results & conclusions
Theoretical views • Distinctions between different forms of social actions; (Objective, Value, Affective,Traditional) M Weber • Three concepts of historical use; (antiquarian,monumental, critical) F Nietzsche • Social capital and trust in economic relations; R Putnam • From competitive advantage to corporate strategy; M Porter • Eco-strategies – Sandell (2005)
Usage by the rural community Enjoyment by rural community Museum for guided consumption Factory of activityproduction Eco-strategies – Sandell (2005) To “change” The “lived” landscape The “tracked” landscape To “preserve”
C A B D Density, region enlargement and heritage value. • If several objects, through joint information and development, are gathered to a more dense structure extended potential attractiveness will be achieved.
Norsjö aerial tramway is a 13.163 kilometre long cabin railway between Örträsk and Mensträsk in the municipality of Norsjö in Västerbotten. In service for passenger traffic in 1989.
Svansele Wildernesscenter The mine of wilderness
Conservation (preservation of static) Preservation (some changes by functional reasons acceptable) Exploitation (changes by economic reasons acceptable) Ruin (provided disrepair without any active actions) Scale of preservation strategies
Entrepreneurship: Themes ordered after activity, management and organisation. • Idealistic: e.g. activities preformed by social associations, village communities and single local groups. • Commercial: Different kind of private profit based businesses. • Public management: e.g. communities, county administration, public authorities
Types of entrepreneurship • Lifestyle • Idealistic collective • Maximization of profit • Compulsion • Public administration / /management
Destination project- what kind of phenomena is this? • Enthusiastic phase (ordinary industry goes down, visions for preservation is formed, believing in new regional development) • EU-phase (Plans, visions and objectives is formed in accordance with EU-regulations. Different types of entrepreneurship. Local and regional funds are active. Arguments moves from ”preservation” towards ”economic” and ”tourist” project. • Entrepreneurial phase (Increased claims on financial capacity, single firms shows interest, difficulties to assert heritage perspectives) • Total phase (increased acceptance in general, other tourist organisations are linked) • ??
Some conclusions • The entrepreneur is less dependent in relation to public authorities • The entrepreneur is more dependent in relation to the local community and its informal networks • Regional concepts with industrial heritage can stimulate attitude changes against and between public authorities/local government • Tensions between antiquarian and commercial perspectives are weak
Cultural heritage, entrepreneurship and local movement Further readings www.umu.se/cerum Centre for Regional Science martin.paju@cerum.umu.se