In recent times, heritage has become a key focus of socio-economic concern due to its connections to history, nationalism, and, especially, tourism. It has been highlighted as having major consequences for the sociocultural engagement of local populations. The notion that tourism transforms local heritage through the categorization of local realities has become particularly widespread. However, the specific mechanism through which these transformations occur has remained unformalized in cultural heritage studies. This has resulted in a lack of computational approaches to the issue of heritage categorization, which can connect with other issues of tourism promotion and management. In this article, we conceptualize the cultural dynamics of heritage, such as changes in the categories used to signify heritage, and design and analyze a dedicated computational agent-based model of heritage engagement. Here, we seek to explore the role of communicative strategies, as they relate to social groups, as well as the specific topologies of interaction networks. We attempt to understand what role mediation, such as that produced by online platforms, can play in producing different levels of consensus between tourists. The results suggest that topology plays the greatest role in generating consensus in the evolution of heritage meaning, with different patterns emerging according to the communicative strategies employed. The results have implications for the future direction of the study of heritage and heritage modeling, placing emphasis on the need to analyze tourist communication content, as well as being potentially useful for public policy with regard to heritage management.

The 21st century has witnessed a growth in the importance given to the third mission of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). This third mission refers to the socioeconomic engagement with the surrounding social and business fabric, namely in the form of knowledge transfer (KT) schemes and policies. Despite its widely-recognized importance, the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS) has remained only marginally engaged with HEI, in part due to the lack of explicit policy by public actors to bring the two types of actors together. This article seeks to explore the institutional frameworks that have been developed for knowledge transfer from HEI to the CCS in selected regions of the Atlantic Area. Towards this goal, it first analyses some of the sectoral specificities of the CCS, identifying three feature which distinguish the sector: the entrepreneurial structure and organization of CCS; the type of knowledge, innovation and motivations of firms; and their absence of connections to HEI. The article seeks then to analyze to what extent existing policy on CCS and KT policies in the regions has tackled these specificities, through a qualitative analysis of reports, policy documents, and academic analysis of the regional economies, before proposing a model for understanding KT policy in the CCS sector, which serves as a preliminary line of inquiry into the knowledge relations in the CCS. Finally, these policy concerns are related to the perceptions of CCS practitioners, attempting to understand the primary concerns of these actors according to their regional context. The article highlights the existing disconnect between public policy, the current state of understanding of the CCS and the industry actors, urging for greater research and policy-development to promote innovation and socioeconomic growth.

This paper presents a novel concept of a polyatomic logic and initiates its systematic study. This approach, inspired by inquisitive semantics, is obtained by taking a variant of a given logic, obtained by looking at the fragment covered by a selector term. We introduce an algebraic semantics for these logics and prove algebraic completeness. These logics are then related to translations, through the introduction of a number of classes of translations involving selector terms, which are noted to be ubiquitous in algebraic logic. In this setting, we also introduce a generalized Blok–Esakia theory, which can be developed for special classes of translations. We conclude by showing some systematic connections between the theory of polyatomic logics and the general Blok–Esakia theory for a wide class of interesting translations.