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Arts Entrepreneurship — Two Curricular Tracks

So I'm in the final planning stages for my course in Arts Entrepreneurship (starts March 30), and I have come to the conclusion that I will teach and present materials and activities in 2 different tracks: those for the social entrepreneur, and those for the traditional one.  I'm particularly taken with Peter C. Brinckerhoff's definitions of these 2 categories.  "Social entrepreneurs are people who take risk on behalf of the people their organization serves.  Traditional entrepreneurs take risk on their own behalf, or on behalf … [Read more...]

Arts Entrepreneurship — Third Dimension

After digesting the many superb responses, both published here and private, to last week's blog entry, I spent a lot of time pondering what is really bothering me about the arts entrepreneurship "movement."  I realized that I have been hoping for and imagining a third dimension.  Let me explain. The first discernable dimension of arts entrepreneurship appears in higher education and in post-education career counseling.  It consists of how to make yourself more marketable for identified positions.  It's a hyper-charged … [Read more...]

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