Cultural Entrepreneurship

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship to comment on the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, it focuses on how individuals articulate their experience of entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. Beyond the caricatures usually associated with entrepreneurial identities, this study encourages individuals to construct their story within a dynamic context, a space they shape as well as being shaped by it.

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.

Introduction 1. Entrepreneurship Research 2. The Rise of the Cultural Entrepreneur 3. A Framework for Researching the Cultural Entrepreneur 4. Identity and the Cultural Entrepreneur 5. The Significance of Place 6. It's Who You Know Not What You Know That Matters Conclusion