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New Article in Cultural Trends

Posted on May 22, 2017 by lindaessig

Same or different? The “cultural entrepreneurship” and “arts entrepreneurship” constructs in European and US higher education …is an article I wrote just ahead of print in Cultural Trends. It uses data gathered by graduate research assistant Joanna Guevara as a part of a … Continue reading →

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Multiple Points of Entry and Exit

Posted on May 16, 2017 by lindaessig

In the past several weeks, I have found myself using the phrase “multiple points of entry,” to describe different aspects of our programming: at meetings with ASU Enterprise and Innovation; with alumni; at our recent Herberger Institute Student IDEA Showcase; … Continue reading →

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What Does it all Mean?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by lindaessig

Definitional problems still persist in the teaching and learning arts entrepreneurship. Each year, I ask students what “entrepreneurship” means to them and then, after a short lecture and reading material by Andrew Simonet, David Cutler, and Aaron Dworkin, ask: “What … Continue reading →

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ENCATC Teaser

Posted on September 29, 2016 by lindaessig

I’m presenting a paper next week at the European Network of Cultural Management Conference (ENCATC) entitled “Same or Different? The ‘Cultural Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Arts Entrepreneurship’ Constructs in European and US Higher Education.” Here’s a teaser: “Arts Entrepreneurship” is beginning to … Continue reading →

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Book proposal

Posted on May 7, 2016 by lindaessig

I’m working on a book proposal – let me know what you think. [Please see the revised proposal instead] An Ouroboros: Art, Money and Entrepreneurial Action will be a collection of original essays for an interested lay audience that bridges the … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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