Cultural Entrepreneurship

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how individuals articulate their experience of entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. Noting the importance of place, the local cultural milieu is examined as a means of situating entrepreneurial practices through cultural and enterprise policies, local networks, and significant relationships. Within this framework, the cultural entrepreneurs’ stories reveal means of subverting or re-interpreting identities and the possibility for ‘rethinking cultural entrepreneurship.’ Aimed at researchers, academics and students investigating cultural entrepreneurship, cultural policy and cultural labour, Cultural Entrepreneurship will additionally be of value to creative industry consultants, cultural policymakers, and those setting up creative enterprises. Researchers from fields such as geography, investigating different aspects of the cultural industries in relation to cultural policy and place, will also find this book to be a useful contribution.

"Cultural Entrepreneurship provides a compelling examination of the experiences of entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries. Drawing on research with entrepreneurs, this book explores identity, networking, and place to provide a distinctive analysis of interest for a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners and researchers." –Daniel Ashton, University of Southampton, UK

Annette Naudin is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Birmingham City University, UK and is an Enterprise Education Fellow of the National Centre for Graduate Entrepreneurship.