Mapping the cultural industries: the example of the Paris Region

For major metropolitan areas, culture is a strategic driving-force behind their development. In this regard, the Paris Region is particularly well endowed: it accounts for 45% of total national cultural employment and benefits from a very rich cultural ecosystem, which enables it to stand out from the competition, notably in the audiovisual-cinema-multimedia sector. However, although this sector is flourishing, the professionals who work in it combine several activities and are in untypical forms of employment. [...]