This book explains and analyzes entrepreneurship and cultural management issues in the creative and cultural sectors and discusses the impacts of economic, social and structural changes on cultural entrepreneurship. The expert contributions investigate the role of cultural entrepreneurship in regional and destination management and development by presenting best practice examples. It offers various interdisciplinary approaches, including perspectives from the fields of entrepreneurship and management, regional and destination management and development, sociology, psychology, innovation as well as creative industries, and also features articles exploring cultural entrepreneurship on a corporate as well as on a spatial level ¿ or in other words in regions and destinations.

Investigates cultural entrepreneurship on a corporate and regional level

Chapter 1: Introduction Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship as Drivers for Change and Development.- PART I: Combining Creative Industries and Business Issues.- Chapter 2: Culture-Based Products: Integrating Cultural and Commercial Strategies.- Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial Behavior and Financing Structures in the German Creative Industries. A Survey of Start-ups and Young Growing Firms.- Chapter 4: Financial Sustainability of Small- and Medium-SizedEnterprises in the Cultural and Creative Sector: The Role of Funding.- Chapter 5: Entrepreneurial Storytelling as Narrative Practice in Project and Organizational Development. Findings of a Narrative- and Discourse-analytical Case Study in Switzerland.- Chapter 6: The Paradox between Individual Professionalization and Dependence on Social Contexts and Professional Scenes. Drafting your Career in the Sectors of Creative Industries.- Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries. A Literature Review and Research Agenda.- PART II: TheValue of Creative Industries for Change and Development.- Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Education in Arts Universities - Facilitating the Change to the Entrepreneurial Mindset.- Chapter 9: The New Socio-Cultural Entrepreneurs. At the Crossroads between Social Enterprises and Arts Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 10: From Edge to Engine. The Creative Sector's Cultural and Entrepreneurial Power and Promise.- Chapter 11: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Context of Spillovers within the Cultural and Creative Industries. The Case of Design Practice for Social Change.- Chapter 12: Enhancing the Potential of Cultural Entrepreneurship: Connecting Regional Development and Performance of Cultural Firms in Europe.- Chapter 13: When Culture meets Economy. The Role of Art, Culture and the Creative Industries in Regional Innovation Systems.- PART III: Creative Industries in the Context of Regional and Destination Development.- Chapter 14: Cultural Enterpreneurship and Rural Development: Case study of Pirot,Serbia.- Chapter 15: Case Study: Don't say Street Art, says Fanzara.- Chapter 16: Relevant Locational Factors for Creative Industries Startups. Selected Findings from an Empirical Study on Stakeholder Perspectives in the Greater Region of Stuttgart.- Chapter 17: Managing a World Heritage Site in Italy as Janus Bifrons: A "Decentralized Centralization" between Effectiveness and Efficiency.- Chapter 18: Creative Entrepreneurship in No Man's Land: Challenges and Prospects for a Metropolitan Area and Smaller Communities. Perspectives from the Never-ending Transition.- Chapter 19: Experience-driven Cultural Entrepreneurship: Business Models and Regional Development in the "World of Frederick II Hohenstaufen".- Chapter 20: Urban Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurs: A Closer Look at Cultural Quarters and the Creative Clustering Process in Nantes (France).