Some time ago, I came across a PhD Thesis by Jenny Fatou MBAYE, a UNESCO African Specialist entitled "Reconsidering Cultural Entrepreneurship: Hip Hop Music Economy and Social Change in Senegal, Francophone West Africa" (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, London, July 2011). The author speaks about contradictions of the music economy and about the … Continue reading Reconsidering Cultural Entrepreneurship in Senegal
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While looking for information on IPs in the creative industries and how they are used in cultural enterprises, I found a very interesting initiative by the Malaysian government called "MyCreative Ventures". MyCreative is "a government investment arm to spur Malaysia’s creative industry via strategic and innovative funding in a form of equity or debt investments." … Continue reading Turning IPs into valuable assets for the the cultural enterprises
I came across Aditya Mukherjee's new book entitled Boomtown and as Murali D explains in the interview with the author, this is "...a story of food, friendship, romance, and the adventure of entrepreneurship, with four friends coming together for starting a restaurant chain". The interesting part about this interview is when the journalist ask the … Continue reading Cultural Entrepreneurship in India
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