Many cultural industries (cinema, museums, live spectacles and other
events) are subsidized by national and local governments. Where to
locate strategic intelligence on these industries in the US, Canada,
the UK and France? What are the emergenging trends? What government
policies are working?

I hope these comments and links may be helpful for Britain and France only:

"The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
(IFACCA), a global network of national arts funding bodies...supports
excellence and diversity in artistic endeavour."
http://www.ifacca.org 

Cultural Economics:
http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/ica_c.htm  

Cultural Branding: An International Dimension of Cultural diplomacy
http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/papers/Tomalin%20-%20Cultural%20dimensions%20of%20International%20Relations.pdf



Franco-British Council Committing to Culture: Arts Funding in France and Britain
http://www.francobritishcouncil.org.uk/reports/artsfunding.pdf 

Big league strategies: France, Germany and the UK 
in Ritva Mitchell: CIRCLE 1998 Survey on Cultural Co-operation In Europe
www.circle-network.org/activity/cracow1999/analysis.htm 


National and international cultural policy
in Chapter III "Principles" in Change and Renewal Norwegian foreign cultural policy
http://odin.dep.no/ud/engelsk/publ/rapporter/032001-990437/hov004-bn.html 

25 questions on culture, trade and globalisation 
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18692&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Association française d'action artistique
www.afaa.asso.fr/ 

5000 sites, 10000 cultural events, 1000 museums (in French)
www.texte.culture.fr    


International Intelligence on Culture, London, UK, publishes 
international arts briefings on the USA, Canada and France, among others; as 
well as a guide to touring the arts in Europe; and 
"Arts Networking in Europe".
 



Rambert Research (June 2004) 
Britain's leading contemporary dance company have commissioned
Cultural Intelligence ? to identify the demographic social and
economic trends that are likely to effect its audience in the next ten
years.

New Audiences: free resources on developing audiences in the world.
Arts Council England invested £20 million in the programme, over five
years, from 1998 to 2003.
www.newaudiences.org.uk/ 

Arts Council's partnership with the BBC in identifying and nurturing
new Black and minority ethnic writers for radio drama and theatre.
www.newaudiences.org.uk/feature.php?news_20050101_1 

The Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA) used its New
Audiences funding to commission the think-tank Demos to explore ideas
around cultural entitlement and public value, resulting in a report
'The Right To Art'.
www.vaga.co.uk 

Case studies on cultural intelligence in the UK:
www.newaudiences.org.uk/resources.php?show_publications=on&search=cultural+intelligence

Cultural Intelligence & Modern Management  Ten3 Mini-course by
Anastasia Bibikova & Vadim Kotelnikov
http://www.1000ventures.com/ebooks/bec_mc_cimm.html 

World Cultural Intelligence Network
http://members.shaw.ca/wcin/2.0.arts.htm 


Sue Robertson: Accounting for Culture: Creativity and the Imagination
in an Age of Audit, journal Cultural Trends
www.city.ac.uk/citynews/archive/2004/10052004_3.html 


University of Western Sydney  Centre for Cultural Research
?Building cultural intelligence for a complex and rapidly changing world.?
www.uws.edu.au/ccr 

UNESCO Pilot expriment Available in French only as of Friday January 28th 2005.
Convention on Cultural Content Diversity and Artisitic Expression 
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21467&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Digitize the Culture or Culturizing the Digital
Derrick de Kerckhove
McLuhan Program and Library of Congress
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/file_download.php/1d594c28cf3ce4adea991cd3965d7becDerrick+de+Kerckhove_digitize+the+culture.doc


France is a leading force in the virtualization of culture (Edmond
Couchot, Anne Cauquelin, Pierre Lévy, Philippe Quéau)
 

Robert Phillipson: English to transform the students? whole world
http://satamikarohm.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=609

I hope these comments and links may be helpful for Britain and France only:

"The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
(IFACCA), a global network of national arts funding bodies...supports
excellence and diversity in artistic endeavour."
http://www.ifacca.org 

Cultural Economics:
http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/ica_c.htm  

Cultural Branding: An International Dimension of Cultural diplomacy
http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/papers/Tomalin%20-%20Cultural%20dimensions%20of%20International%20Relations.pdf

Franco-British Council Committing to Culture: Arts Funding in France and Britain
http://www.francobritishcouncil.org.uk/reports/artsfunding.pdf 

Big league strategies: France, Germany and the UK 
in Ritva Mitchell: CIRCLE 1998 Survey on Cultural Co-operation In Europe
www.circle-network.org/activity/cracow1999/analysis.htm 

National and international cultural policy
in Chapter III "Principles" in Change and Renewal Norwegian foreign cultural policy
http://odin.dep.no/ud/engelsk/publ/rapporter/032001-990437/hov004-bn.html 

25 questions on culture, trade and globalisation 
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18692&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Association française d'action artistique
www.afaa.asso.fr/ 

5000 sites, 10000 cultural events, 1000 museums (in French)
www.texte.culture.fr    

International Intelligence on Culture, London, UK, publishes 
international arts briefings on the USA, Canada and France, among others; as 
well as a guide to touring the arts in Europe; and 
"Arts Networking in Europe".
 
Rambert Research (June 2004) 
Britain's leading contemporary dance company have commissioned
Cultural Intelligence ? to identify the demographic social and
economic trends that are likely to effect its audience in the next ten
years.

New Audiences: free resources on developing audiences in the world.
Arts Council England invested £20 million in the programme, over five
years, from 1998 to 2003.
www.newaudiences.org.uk/ 

Arts Council's partnership with the BBC in identifying and nurturing
new Black and minority ethnic writers for radio drama and theatre.
www.newaudiences.org.uk/feature.php?news_20050101_1 

The Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA) used its New
Audiences funding to commission the think-tank Demos to explore ideas
around cultural entitlement and public value, resulting in a report
'The Right To Art'.
www.vaga.co.uk 

Case studies on cultural intelligence in the UK:
www.newaudiences.org.uk/resources.php?show_publications=on&search=cultural+intelligence

Cultural Intelligence & Modern Management  Ten3 Mini-course by
Anastasia Bibikova & Vadim Kotelnikov
http://www.1000ventures.com/ebooks/bec_mc_cimm.html 

World Cultural Intelligence Network
http://members.shaw.ca/wcin/2.0.arts.htm 

Sue Robertson: Accounting for Culture: Creativity and the Imagination
in an Age of Audit, journal Cultural Trends
www.city.ac.uk/citynews/archive/2004/10052004_3.html 

University of Western Sydney  Centre for Cultural Research
?Building cultural intelligence for a complex and rapidly changing world.?
www.uws.edu.au/ccr 

UNESCO Pilot expriment Available in French only as of Friday January 28th 2005.
Convention on Cultural Content Diversity and Artisitic Expression 
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21467&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Digitize the Culture or Culturizing the Digital
Derrick de Kerckhove
McLuhan Program and Library of Congress
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/file_download.php/1d594c28cf3ce4adea991cd3965d7becDerrick+de+Kerckhove_digitize+the+culture.doc

France is a leading force in the virtualization of culture (Edmond
Couchot, Anne Cauquelin, Pierre Lévy, Philippe Quéau)
 
Robert Phillipson: English to transform the students? whole world
http://satamikarohm.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=609