Abstract

The term «cultural innovator» refers to various people and groups throughout Italy that lead existing culture past its traditional boundaries: mixing productive sectors, working with citizens, innovating production methods, improving the quality of life, and promoting the development of the territory. They work in collaborative frameworks and are often involved in both research and activism. Two case studies about cultural innovators are presented here, showing them working in very different contexts: Sicily and Trentino Alto Adige. Cultural innovation is made of transversal and multidimensional processes and projects, and therefore traditional methods of measurement are not able to capture all the effects of cultural innovation. What should we measure - and how should we measure it - in order to reveal the impacts of cultural innovation?