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 Discusses the importance of creative industries for the innovativeness in firms and regions Combines perspectives across cultural entrepreneurship and tourism

Autorentext
Elisa Innerhofer is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Regional Development at the European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy and working in the hospitality sector. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. Her research interests include innovation and product development in tourism, regional and destination management and culture and creativity as location factors. She worked as a researcher at the Chair of Tourism and Center for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and as an independent consultant for a consulting institute.

Harald Pechlaner is Professor of Tourism and Head of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and Director of the Institute for Regional Development at the European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC research), Italy. Prof. Harald Pechlaner is President of AIEST (Association Internationale d'Experts Scientifiques du Tourisme). He is Adjunct Research Professor at the School of Marketing of Curtin University (Curtin Business School) in Perth/Western Australia, and since 2016 a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Elena Borin is Associate Professor for the Department of Control, Law and Finance, Director of the Master in Arts and Cultural Management at the Burgundy School of Business (Dijon, France) where she is also member of the Management of Culture and Arts Research Cluster (CEREN/MECIC). Her PhD thesis in Economics (University of Ferrara Italy) entitled "Public-Private partnerships in the cultural sector in Europe" won the ENCATC Award on Cultural Management and Policy. Her research interests include cultural management, international cultural governance and multi-stakeholder partnerships. She has previously cooperated with the European Project ADRIA A and the University of Ferrara (Italy).

Inhalt
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).