Entrepreneurship in Culture and Creative Industries

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.

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).