About the course

Topics

Entrepreneurship Innovation Management

Course content

The course provides the students with the theoretical and conceptual frameworks to discuss, analyze and manage cultural entrepreneurship. It provides competences to formulate and develop entrepreneurial processes and to apply these to empirical cases within the field of arts and culture. The course introduces three approaches to cultural entrepreneurship: 1) cultural entrepreneurship as managerially driven endeavors to change and renew cultural institutions. 2) cultural entrepreneurship as politically and economically driven endeavors to initiate and support urban and regional development. 3) cultural entrepreneurship as socially driven endeavors to advocate community identity and increase diversity in artistic and cultural expressions. The course links the three approaches to globalization with a specific focus on new social media and technologies, cultural and identity studies, and the opportunities offered by a global economy. In terms of paedagogics, the course requires the students to initiate, organize and assess cultural projects.

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What you learn

To achieve the grade 12, the student should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:

Account for the theoretical and conceptual frameworks
Apply the theoretical and conceptual framework to empirical cases
Discuss and assess the theoretical and conceptual framework in terms of relevance, usefulness, efficiency and epistemological/ontological assumptions
Develop an understanding of entrepreneurship through discussions of aesthetics, cultural policies and politics and sociological diagnoses of the present
Reflect on the proposed conclusion in terms of social, cultural and economic impact
Initiate, organize and assess cultural projects as part of the syllabus

Facts

Level

Bachelor

Type

Mandatory course – also offered as elective

ECTS

7.5

Course code

BSACO1021U

Teaching periods

Spring – 3rd quarter

Academic year

2026/2027

Status

Available places

Language

English

Teaching type

On campus

Exam

Written assignment
Group exam, spring

Assessment

7 point grading scale