Arts and cultural entrepreneurship
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Arts and cultural entrepreneurship Douglas S. Noonan
Accepted: 3 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The topic of arts and culture in entrepreneurship holds great interest to scholars from many disciplines and to policymakers keen on “Creative Class” development and revitalizing local communities. Much research has explored the role of cultural amenities and milieu in fostering entrepreneurial activity. Having artists and cultural sector workers around provides fertile ground for entrepreneurship. Yet when one looks beyond the highly aggregated correlations and case studies of entrepreneurial artists, research on the roles played by arts workers and the creative sector as entrepreneurial agents remains underdeveloped. This special issue advances the entrepreneurship literature through a collection of articles that explore the entrepreneurial roles, natures, and practices of artists. These articles address fundamental questions about the roles of creativity, entrepreneurship, and psychology as well as more applied questions about the use and implications of online crowd funding platforms and how arts entrepreneurs adapt to their experiences and environments. The excellent work by the contributors to this special issue contributes to the literature with rigorous scholarship and set the stage for more to come. Keywords Arts entrepreneurship . Creative class . Intrapreneurship . Motivations . Experiments . Crowdfunding D. S. Noonan (*) O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA e-mail: [email protected]
JEL classifications L26 . Z10
The topic of arts and culture in entrepreneurship holds great interest to scholars from many disciplines and to policymakers keen on “Creative Class” development and revitalizing local communities. Much research has explored the role of cultural amenities and milieu (e.g., Audretsch et al. 2010, 2019; Clark et al. 2002; Lange 2011; Qian 2013; Storper and Scott 2009) in fostering entrepreneurial activity. Having artists and cultural sector workers around provides fertile ground for entrepreneurship (e.g., Audretsch and Belitski 2013; Lee et al. 2004). Yet when one looks beyond the highly aggregated correlations and case studies of entrepreneurial artists, research on the roles played by arts workers and the creative sector as entrepreneurial agents remains underdeveloped. Often overlooked are the mechanisms and deeper connections, where those creating the cultural expressions, shaping cultural identities, and undertaking artistic projects are themselves entrepreneurs. How artists act as entrepreneurs has received some attention (e.g., Burke 1997; Castiglione et al. 2018; Gafni et al. 2019; Kuhn and Galloway 2015; Olive-Tomas and Harmeling 2019; Pret et al. 2016; Woronkowicz and Noonan 2019), but far more is needed to understand these important connections among creativity, culture, and entrepreneurship. For all the excellent attention and insights that
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