LabEx Industries Culturelles & Création Artistique (ICCA)

ICCA is an interdisciplinary research laboratory centered around the arts, culture and digital markets and their practices. Founded in 2011, ICCA ambitions to define new economic and regulatory models and to study new uses, emerging markets and changing legal frameworks, both in traditional sectors as well as the digital sphere.

ICCA brings together interdisciplinary teams from several universities in domains as diverse as sociology, economics, law,  communication and education.

ICCA is also a forum promoting dialogue with professional networks and industrial actors in culture and arts. As a leading partner and think tank, it provides analysis, expertise and forecasting.

ICCA is a resarch program financed by the program « Investissement d’Avenir ».

LABEX ICCA’S RESEARCH TEAMS are interested in the cultural industries of the new technological age. They analyse the changes that are being brought about by digitisation, strategies, economic models, creativity, types of utilisation, etc. They are also concerned with convergences of content (multimedia, design processes, etc.), and Web-based forms of production and circulation, along with the regulation of the creative industries (analyses of systems; legal and economic questions; evaluation). These questions are at the heart of Labex ICCA’s work on traditional industries (publishing, music, the cinema and the audiovisual sector), but also video games and the world of education (interactions between video games and educational considerations, “serious games”, e-learning).

LABEX ICCA’S WORK IS STRUCTURED, ESSENTIALLY, AROUND 8 THEMES

• New cultural enterprises in the digital age
• The development of the cultural industries in emerging nations
• Independence
• Innovation and mediation
• The economics and sociology of celebrity
• Formats and content
• The cultural industries and non-commercial organisations
• Public policy and regulation

FROM THE START, LABEX ICCA has maintained a policy of assisting researchers who are at the start of their careers:

• through the recruitment of doctoral students and postdocs, for whom an opportunity is provided to concentrate on their research work within a multidisciplinary framework;
• through the provision of final-phase financing that allows doctoral students to complete their PhDs in favourable conditions;
• through the organisation of summer schools that bring together doctoral students, postdocs, researchers from partner laboratories and guest researchers, with the sharing of experience and ideas about the work of the doctoral students, who form a network within Labex ICCA, and who are concerned with developing fresh new interdisciplinary perspectives in the creative and cultural industries;
• through the setting up of a training programme to enhance doctoral students’ scientific expertise, and to allow them to acquire a grounding in the kinds of multidisciplinary skills and methodologies that are applicable to the cultural industries.