This study highlights a significant weight of the cultural sector, with €104.5 billion in direct and indirect contributions to the national economy in 2011: cultural activities represent €57.8 billion in added value, or 3.2% of the national GDP, 670,000 people employed or 2.5% of active employment in 2010 and some sectors are strong exporters, such as video games and fashion. This study is intended to be periodically updated.
The study also confirms that digital has profoundly disrupted the value chains of the cultural economy, with a share of the added value of digital platforms charged with the intermediation between creators and consumers. (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.).
The work carried out also allows us to understand the weight and distribution of existing public support in this area, with a total financial contribution from the State to culture estimated at €13.4 billion by the mission, including €11.1 billion in budgetary appropriations, €1.4 billion in tax expenditures and €0.9 billion in assigned taxes. Local and regional government expenditure is estimated at around €7.6 billion, part of which comes from the State, taking into account cross-financing flows.
Based on a panel of local cultural events, the mission also shows that cultural events supported by public authorities generate positive economic benefits for the territories concerned. By developing an unprecedented methodology for comparing the dynamism of similar territories that have benefited or not from a recent cultural establishment, the two general inspections have also established a positive correlation between a structural cultural establishment (fixed equipment, festival extended over the duration) and the socio-economic development of a territory. This work on the economic impact will soon be enriched by the ongoing study on the impact of Marseille 2013.
In conclusion, the two Ministers stress the importance of public interventions to strengthen, revitalize and strengthen the place and competitiveness of the cultural sector in our economy, at the service of the national influence and vitality of our territories, and to encourage the emergence of modes of sharing value that respect the entire economic chain, particularly creators, in the digital age.
In this regard, they point out that the amended Finance Act for 2013 has just reformed the video game tax credit to better target it and strengthen the attractiveness of our territory for this cultural industry, and to develop film tax credits to maintain the diversity of our national production and to encourage international filmmaking in our region.
In addition, the Ministers indicate that after the work started in 2013 and the consultations conducted in the various sectors of the cultural industries, after the first reforms conducted notably in the audiovisual law and the finance laws for 2013 and 2014, reforms and developments in creative support mechanisms will continue in 2014, in particular within the framework of the creative act.
Joint study on the contribution of culture to our economy entrusted to the General Inspectorate of Finance and the General Inspectorate of Cultural Affairs by Pierre Moscovici, Minister of Economy and Finance and Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication
Published on 03.01.2014
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