Pioneering Minds Worldwide: On the Entrepreneurial Principles of the Cultural and Creative Industries

Book info: Pioneering Minds Worldwide: On the Entrepreneurial Principles of the Cultural and Creative Industries (Paperback, 280 pages) – Eburon Academic Publishers, 2012. Language: English.

Even after the recent economic crisis, cultural and creative industries are still able to easily draw audience members and consumers, as well as new talent to enrich these fields. Exploring the topic from economic, artistic, and policymaking perspectives, Pioneering Minds Worldwide is an interdisciplinary approach to these trades on a global scale, while making an important distinction between the cultural sector—products that are consumed on the spot, such as concerts or dance performances—and the creative sector, which generates artistic products that we have a protracted interaction with, i.e. design, architecture, and advertising. The authors of these highly informative essays offer new concepts and viewpoints on the entrepreneurial dimension of the cultural and creative industries in sixteen countries and explore how urban area development, new technological innovations, and education all influence these continually expanding industries. Editorial Reviews About the Author

Giep Hagoort is founder and dean of the Amsterdam School of Management and professor of art and science at Ilia State University, Georgia.

Aukje Thomassen is associate professor in design and head of research the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology,




René Kooyman is a lecturer at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht as well as project manager and executive secretary of the Creative Urban Renewal in Europe monitoring board.