ABSTRACT
This is a handbook for the cultural entrepreneur, offering some of the best examples on practice, franchises, research, innovation and business opportunities in the cultural sector. The key theme is the contribution and possibilities of the cultural economy as a business, with a strong supporting subtext on innovative practice.
The book illustrates the theme by providing multiple practice-based and empirical examples from an international panel of experts. Each contribution provides an accessible and easily accessed bank of knowledge on which existing practice can be grown and new projects undertaken. It provides an eclectic mix of possibilities that reinforce and underscore the full innovative and complex potential of the cultural economy. Topics include a review of the global and regional economic benefits of the cultural economy, evidence-based analysis of the culture industries, and an outline of the top ten cultural opportunities for business. This collection transcends the space between theory and practice to combine culture and innovation and understand their importance to a wider economy.
This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners interested in entrepreneurship, non-profit management, art and visual culture, and public finance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Culture and economy – the cultural economy
chapter 2|3 pages
The business of arts consultancy
chapter 5|4 pages
The UK’s national shortage of talent and the networks that can address it
chapter 6|4 pages
Orange tourism
chapter 8|7 pages
It’s all in the books
part II|74 pages
Inclusive design, culture and innovation
chapter 13|4 pages
Value innovation in the “new” age of experiential consumption
chapter 17|21 pages
Innovation and design thinking
part 3|34 pages
Innovation and the arts