Dynamiques des clusters culturels métropolitains, une perspective évolutionniste : Analyse comparée de Québec (Quartier Saint-Roch), Barcelone ( 22@) et Nantes (Quartier de la Création)

Although the term "cluster" is widely used in academic and political circles since the 1990s, we will see that cultural clusters take different forms. This analysis will underline the characteristics of a very specific type of cluster: the metropolitan cultural cluster. Their construction is part of a double intention : building new policy objects in an original way. These clusters can be considered as new public policy tools because of their hybrid nature. They depend on urban, economic and cultural dynamics. To better understand our research object we will use a multidisciplinary scientific approach at the intersection of these three perspectives. This is the originality of our approach.To sum up our work, we will see how the development of these clusters is structured through the relationship between stakeholders. We will focus on the logics that are behind these projects, choices, conflicts and changes in stakeholder’s positions.Less sectional, metropolitan cultural clusters are based on projects where the process is more important than the result. These processes are at the centre of our analysis and we will focus on their dynamics. The "new way of doing things" directly echoes with governance. The projects at the basis of metropolitan cultural clusters advocate an organic development where strategies are not static and where they evolve according to opportunities. Despite these intentions, the cultural clusters we study are largely influenced by earlier forms of clusters. The term itself is inherited from industrial policy. The methods of governance in these clusters seem frozen in old models and less flexible than they are supposed to be. They derive from a top-down approach, decided "by the top for the bottom". Starting from case studies and through an international comparative analysis, we will highlight the complexity behind the term cultural cluster. Adopting a continuous approach, we will trace the evolution of their objectives and seek to identify evolution factors. This thesis proposes a new perspective on the dynamics of cultural clusters. It draws on concepts from evolutionary theories. How do these concepts allow us to better understand the bifurcation strategies in the clusters of Nantes, Barcelona and Quebec? In other words, what do these concepts teach us on the determinants of flexibility?The conclusion will highlight the regular mechanisms that drive the evolution processes of metropolitan cultural clusters.

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