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Innovation on this scale may necessitate making use of expertise and competencies that can only be found outside of Linz. Not everything needs to be homegrown. Linz is strong, sees itself as the seat of a culture of empowerment and fortunately has ample financial resources. It should therefore be a rule for all culturally relevant bodies, juries, project committees, boards, etc. to include experts from other cities. Their different outlook and the references they are bound to make to realities different from the reality of Linz will almost invariably prove an advantage. Linz has already shown over the last decades that it can achieve a lot under its own steam. It can therefore afford learning from others now – for instance as regards creating a new order of the local and regional festival scene once the Music Theatre goes on stream and the realisation of a truly urban vision in the development of the Tobacco Factory plot.back