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Tag Archives: innovation
Novelty, Uniqueness, Originality
My work on An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action continues, sometimes at a pace of one or two paragraphs a day. Framing paragraphs are important, so this one took a while; it is the first of the fourth essay … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Technology and arts
Tagged Csikszentmihalyi, innovation, Novelty, reproduction, Richard Caves, Walter Benjamin
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Art, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
I’m finally catching up on some of the background reading I need to do for An Ouroboros, including a 2014 working paper by Laura Niemi that demonstrates that an interest in the visual arts is predictive of occupational innovation (as … Continue reading
What Does it all Mean?
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
Fidelity ★ Efficiency ★Honor….Empathy
Because this past Sunday was “Purple Heart Day,” I had occasion to look at my father’s purple heart as well as his good conduct medal, inscribed with the words “fidelity,” “efficiency,” and “honor.” These are leadership values that are not … Continue reading
Showcase, Not Competition
The Herberger Institute Office of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programs, which I direct, just hosted its First Annual Herberger Institute Student Idea Showcase. It was a great event, with 18 students pitching ideas for everything from an app that reminds you … Continue reading
The Ouroboros 2: What IS arts entrepreneurship anyway?
I was honored to be invited to deliver the keynote remarks at the UW-Madison Bolz Center’s Arts Business Research Symposium March 13-14, 2014. I previewed those remarks here and am posting the full text serially over the next several days. … Continue reading
Arts Entrepreneurship: New and Not New
My colleagues teaching courses or whole programs in “arts entrepreneurship” often categorize the discipline as “new,” “nascent,” or “emergent.” I too have used those descriptors. It is useful, however, to remember that while teaching specific courses, offering certificates and degrees, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Higher education
Tagged arts entrepreneurship, Creative Capital, innovation, Ruby Lerner, theory
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Why Arts Entrepreneurship?
After “Hey Where’d Your Creativity Go?,” the questions I get asked most often is, “WHY Arts Entrepreneurship?” It seems fitting that for the 100th posting on Creative Infrastructure, I answer that question. There are many reasons why I decided to … Continue reading
University R&D
This post was originally commissioned by and posted on the 2am Theatre blog (#2amt) Somewhat by accident, I stumbled into a weekly twitter conversation about new play development (hashtag #newplay) despite the fact that I am not a playwright. What … Continue reading
Avoiding the Begging Cup – redux
Late last week, Richard Dare of the Brooklyn Philharmonic posted a column on the Huffington Post about the unsustainability of a donor-based business model for the arts. A colleague, seeing this, wrote, “I’ve been saying that for years.” To which … Continue reading
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