ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the developing field of arts enterprise and arts entrepreneurship in higher education in a multinational context. The field is contextualized within the broader landscape of the creative industries and the consequential development of knowledge, skills, and the habits of mind necessary for artistic venture creation, sustainability, and success. To foster the distinctive skills and habits of mind required of enterprising artists and arts entrepreneurs, signature pedagogies for arts entrepreneurship are evolving. The signature pedagogies in the field of business entrepreneurship education are being adopted and adapted for arts entrepreneurship education. Arts leaders are also widely employed in the arts entrepreneurship classroom to discuss the entrepreneurial process, or specific topics such as grant writing or business management. In addition to engendering high levels of disciplinary expertise, usually via learning processes involving resource-intensive studio practice, higher education is also tasked with preparing nascent arts practitioners to self-navigate the fluid, diverse, and multifaceted world of arts.
