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About lindaessig

Linda Essig is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Baruch College and principal/owner of Creative Infrastructure. The opinions expressed on Creative Infrastructure are her own and not those of Baruch College

Teachable Skills

Posted on March 29, 2016 by lindaessig

A basic question that comes up often at meetings of arts entrepreneurship educators is “what should we be teaching?” As I was preparing to write the editor’s introduction to the Winter 2016 issue of Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in … Continue reading →

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New Project!

Posted on March 21, 2016 by lindaessig

For about a month, I’ve been “between projects.” I don’t mean that in the Hollywood sense, but in the research agenda sense. I basically completed my cross-case analysis of arts incubators* and while I wait to hear back on a … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Infrastructure: Artists’ Professional Development

Posted on March 7, 2016 by lindaessig

In a podcasted conversation with David Dower some time ago, I explained that creative infrastructure for the arts has three components: physical infrastructure, organizational infrastructure, and personal infrastructure. I’ve noticed (as has at least one regular reader) that this blog … Continue reading →

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Know Your Audience: Self-Employment in the Arts Conference

Posted on February 28, 2016 by lindaessig

A core principle of arts entrepreneurship, at least as I teach it, is that the work must connect with its audience. That’s why we spend so much time getting to know that audience in a project-based course like Arts Entrepreneurship … Continue reading →

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Networking redux: Pattern recognition

Posted on February 22, 2016 by lindaessig

I was reviewing a 2006 article on pattern recognition and entrepreneurship[1] in preparation for my undergraduate seminar, when this passage jumped off the page: …the findings of several studies indicate that the broader entrepreneurs’ social networks (the more people they … Continue reading →

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Networks and Entrepreneurship

Posted on February 13, 2016 by lindaessig

As my students this week revisited their inventory of means (who they are, what they know, who they know) in the context of the specific enterprise ideas they are developing, I was struck by how much they focused on the … Continue reading →

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Effectual Thinking → Corn Muffins

Posted on February 3, 2016 by lindaessig

More than once, I’ve heard arts entrepreneurship educators, including me, reference the Chinese proverb about experiential learning: “give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” To teach … Continue reading →

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Animating Research

Posted on January 29, 2016 by lindaessig

A few weeks ago, I shared some excitement about my research being used in Liz Lerman’s class, “Animating Research.” Yesterday, I presented a 15 minute overview of “Lowering Barriers: Value Creation and Evaluation in Arts Incubators” to the class. Students had previously … Continue reading →

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Skills, They Got Skills

Posted on January 28, 2016 by lindaessig

There’s a song by Mozes and the Firstborn with the lyric “Skills, I got skills.” The tune kept going through my head today during the undergraduate arts entrepreneurship seminar as the students developed their inventory of means: who they are, … Continue reading →

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Toilet Paper and M&Ms

Posted on January 20, 2016 by lindaessig

I have asked (aka, required) the undergraduate students in my advanced arts entrepreneurship seminar to blog weekly about their experience in class and in launching a collaborative enterprise, the core activity of the semester. It is only fair that I … Continue reading →

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