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Chapter 3 looks at the definitions of value and impact, and the tensions resulting from applying these terms to arts and cultural activity. It explores how the innovation agenda in Australia has been aligned with the understanding of impact and how such an alignment has moved the evaluation of value and impact into the territory of economic rationalism, debates about productivity and workforce planning, and explores the conundrum around the attribution of causality.
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Gattenhof, S. (2017). The Need to Determine Value and Impact. In: Measuring Impact. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47287-8_3
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