Digital transformation has profoundly affected organizations and value chains in cultural production at the global level. The volume focuses on this change by looking at the knowledge, skills, and competencies (KSC) of the labor force in the cultural and creative industries (CCI) in Italy. The contribution of the research is twofold. On the one hand, the book offers a detailed map of the KSC of creative and cultural professions and workers, on the other hand, it identifies relevant gaps between supply and demand across different cultural sub-sectors and typologies of workers.

The study adopts an original methodology that implements a Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach to the analysis of education, experiences, and accomplishments contained in CVs. The result of the mapping exercise based on the algorithm shows how managerial and digital skills are increasingly crucial in the CCI in combination with creative skills. The Italian labor market in these industries seems characterized not only by a growing symbiosis between creative, digital, and managerial KSC but also by a convergence of CCI sub-sectors, whose boundaries get increasingly blurred and permeable. Finally, comparing the supply and demand of KSC, the book provides managers, practitioners, policymakers, and educational institutions with a comprehensive overview of the new KSC needed in CCI.

Provides a map of knowledge, skills and competencies in cultural and creative industries Uses an NLP approach together with an alogrithm trained on ESCO classification Helps with skills-gap analysis

Autorentext

Aldo Geuna is a professor of economic policy in the Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society, University of Turin (Italy), fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin, Italy), and fellow of CIFAR (Canada). His research interests include economics of science, economics of innovation, science and technology policy, political economy of science and technology, ICT and Internet economics, economic growth, and development economics. Marco Guerzoni is an associate professor of applied economics at the Bicocca University of Milan (Italy). His research area covers management and economics of innovation, technology policy, and advanced data science. His prior work has been published in international journals, including Research Policy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, and Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Massimiliano Nuccio is an assistant professor of Business Economicsand management in the Department of Management at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and deputy director of the University's "BLISS - Digital Impact Lab." His research interests cover digital transformation and data-driven economy, business analytics, urban and regional studies, and cultural and creative industries. Fabio Pammolli is a professor of economics and management at the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) and the scientific director of CERM foundation (Italy). His research focuses on a variety of topics such as economics of innovation, management analytics, the economics of health and pensions, the analysis of growth, diversification, instability of multiproduct firms, and financial systems. Armando Rungi is an assistant professor of industrial organization and international trade at IMT Lucca (Italy), working for the research unit AXES (Analysis of Complex Economic Systems). His main fields of study are international economics, industrial organization, microeconometrics, health economics, trade policy, the economics of natural resources, and transition economies.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Knowledge, Skills and Competences (KSC) in the knowledge-based economy.- A review of the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI).- Methodology and empirical strategy- Creative and digital skills in Italian cultural and creative industries.- Conclusions.