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It’s a buzz term at the moment, but what does ‘arts entrepreneurship’ actually mean, and what challenges and opportunities does it present? A five-day Blogathon attempts to find out.

Entrepreneurship and the Arts has been a hot topic over the past couple of years. More university programs in arts administration are including the subject in their curriculum, more training in being entrepreneurial is being offered to working artists, and the topic is increasingly part of the discussion on innovation, being adaptive, and generally as related to survivability.

Most of us think of Silicon Valley when we hear the word "entrepreneur" - the bold, risk-taking people with new ideas behind start ups that sweep our world and make the founders wealthy beyond belief.  Entrepreneurs are the creative and relentlessly hard working people who push the envelope and who succeed in convincing others that their idea's time has come... Keep reading on Barry's Blog

The Blogathon

Day 1: Define Arts Entrepreneurship and its current status within the nonprofit arts field…
Day 2: What knowledge areas are critical to entrepreneurship in the arts...
Day 3: What are the major challenges to, and opportunities for, advancing Entrepreneurship...
Day 4: What is the present status of arts entrepreneurship research, and where do we go...
Day 5: What is the role of collaboration in entrepreneurship...

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