Strategy for economic development based on cultural heritage

Abstract Recent years have seen significant changes in global thinking about cultural heritage. So that cultural heritage and archaeological heritage resources has been recognized as an economic resource. Unfortunately, not seen specific strategy in our country with have unmatched richness and value of cultural heritage. The purpose of this article is a critique of the Cultural Heritage Status in my country. Unfortunately doesn’t be Exploitation of cultural heritage in the form of resistive and cultural economy. This paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the economy and cultural heritage, the need for the development of entrepreneurship in the field of cultural heritage and to analysis the opinions of archeology experts in this field. The research method is the survey and a questionnaire was used to collect data. Iranian archaeological experts agree with "the economic approach in the cultural heritage" and surveys shows that experts agree with all the questions on the economic components in the cultural heritage and the obtained statistical data can be generalized to the target population of postgraduate in the archeology with confidence level of 99 percent. Certainly, the economic exploitation of cultural heritage is the in terms of “resistive economy” strategy supreme leader of Iran and witness from the country's capacity for economic development Keywords: Heritage management, Development, Cultural economy, Entrepreneurship, Archaeological Experts