Introduction-Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship as Drivers for Change and Development

Cultural and creative industries have been recently affected by the broader economic, social, and structural changes that are influencing not only the academic debate around cultural and creative industries but also their governance and management models. The aim of this book is to investigate how economic, social, and structural changes affect entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries through a multi-disciplinary perspective. The volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to this theme, including contributions from entrepreneurship and its management, regional and destination management and development, sociology, psychology, innovative sectors, and the creative industries. The presented contributions will focus on an analysis of individuals/entrepreneurs from the creative industries and analyses of cultural organizations, artistic initiatives, businesses, and regions and destinations. Contributions will be research based, practice-based or a combination of both.