Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship

Rene Kooyman  Duluth MI   June 10  2015

How  did  we  get  

here?

Cultural and Creative Economy

• UNCTAD Creative Economy Reports• Creative economy: a big business• Employsmillions• Promotes growth and trade• Growing economic sector; even in times of crisis

http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationArchive.aspx?publicationid=946

OECD: Environmental factors: determinants for Entrepreneurial success

• Regulatory Framework• R&D and Technology• Entrepreneurial Capabilities and Entrepreneurial 

Culture; the Educational Dimension• Access to Finance• Market Conditions

2011 OECD: Entrepreneurship at a glance

European Commission, 2011

• response to the growing importance of the creative economy as tools to tackle Europe's current and future challenges

• EU: position of the nation state; govsubsidies

EDCCI

http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/the‐entrepreneurial‐dimension‐of‐the‐cultural‐and‐creative‐industries‐pbNC0213130/

edcci: 

(Source: Eurokleis 2010, online survey)

Question: Do you agree that entrepreneurship is sufficiently addressed in the educational system?

2012 The Urban Dimension: Creative Urban Renewal

http://cure‐web.eu/

2013: Pioneering minds worldwide

• Contributions from 48 selected authors, covering all continents, from China, New Zealand, Den Mark, United Kingdom, Turkey, etc.

• Key Elements, Concepts & Perspectives

• Urban Area Development• Innovation and Education

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo14592078.html

2014: Beyond Frames

http://www.antwerpmanagementschool.be/EN/search.aspx?q=creative

Look beyond the traditional agenda of policy‐based research:

• Innovation• Cooperative ways of working• The triple‐helix model: 

• policymakers • universities (knowledge institutions)• and private companies (the creative industries)

the focus is on the entrepreneurial spirit of the cultural and creative industries

Creating Cultural Capital

http://d.umn.edu/cue/main/2015conference.html

Cultural Entrepreneurshipas an Academic Disciplineand Professional Practice

• A global perspective• Theory• Pedagogy• Cases• Practice• The near future

That’swhereit’s at !

Rene Kooyman

rene.kooyman@unitar.org