Key Textbooks

• Varbanova, Lidia (2016) International Entrepreneurship in the Arts, New York/London: Routledge: https://www.amazon.com/International-Entrepreneurship-Arts-Lidia-Varbanova/dp/1138844357

• Varbanova, Lidia (2012) Strategic Management in the Arts, New York/London: Routledge: https://www.amazon.ca/Strategic-Management-Arts-Lidia-Varbanova/dp/0415530032

Online Resources (Documents and Publications)

• Accelerators Vs. Incubators: http://www.ecosysteminsights.org/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-accelerators/

• Approaches to Creative Placemaking: http://www.artscapediy.org/Creative-Placemaking/Approaches-to-Creative-Placemaking.aspx

• Creative Enterprise Handbook, NESTA - http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/creative-enterprise-toolkit

• Crossover. How artists build careers across commercial, nonprofit and community work: http://www.haassr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/caCrossover.pdf

• Essig, Linda. Arts Incubators: A Typology: http://stpaconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/C4c.pdf

• Managing Creative Enterprises, World Intellectual Property Organization - http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/copyright/938/wipo_pub_938.pdf

• Markusen, Ann (2013) How cities can nurture cultural entrepreneurs - http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2013/11/how-cities-can-nurture-cultural-entrepreneurs

• Matched crowdfunding - new ways for people and institutions to collaborate on funding projects http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/matched-crowdfunding-new-ways-people-and-institutions-collaborate-funding-projects

• Research on Social Entrepreneurship: LabforCulture: http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents/research-in-focus/social-entrepreneurship

• Sponsorship and Alternative Financing for Culture, Christopher Gordon, LabforCulture: http://www.labforculture.org/en/home/contents/floating-pages/articles/sponsorship-and-alternative-financing-for-culture

• Study of the Entrepreneurial Dimensions of the Cultural and Creative Industries, European Commission - http://ec.europa.eu/culture/key-documents/doc3124_en.htm

• Sustainable Models for Shared Culture. Case Studies and Policy Issues: http://in-progress.fcforum.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SharedCulture_web.pdf  

• Ten Policies to Increase the Impact of the Arts on Placemaking, by Kip Bergstrom: (02-2013): http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/lib/cct/Ten_Policies-Impact_of_the_Arts_on_Placemaking.pdf

• The Re-emerging  Art od Funding Innovation by Gabriel Kasper & Justin Marcoux (2014): http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_re_emerging_art_of_funding_innovation

• What is Crowdfinancing - https://youtu.be/8b5-iEnW70k

Online Resources (Blogs)

• Cultural Entrepreneurship News - http://culent.com/

• Cultural Entrepreneurship : http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/culturalentrepreneurship/2013/02/25/defining-cultural-entrepreneurship/

• Entrepreneurship and Strategies in the Arts and Creative Industries, by Lidia Varbanova:  www.lidiavarbanova.ca

• Cultural Entrepreneur: http://www.culturalentrepreneur.se

• The Cultural Entrepreneur : http://theculturalentrepreneur.wordpress.com/

Organizations and Projects

• Advantage Creative Fund, UK - www.advantagecreativefund.co.uk

• Arteconomy, Belgium - http://www.arteconomy.be/htm/getPageEN.asp?i=0

• Arts Business Incubator - https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Arts%20Business%20Incubator

• Bank loan system for financing CI, France - http://www.ifcic.fr/  

• Center for Social Innovation, Toronto, Canada - http://socialinnovation.ca/

• Creative Startups - www.culturalentrepreneur.org

• Cross Border Virtual Incubator: http://www.projects.eadtu.eu/cbvi

• European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and other Early Stage Market Players (EBAN): www.eban.org  

• Flanders, Belgium – http://www.flandersdc.be/en  

• Inserralves – Creative Industry Incubator, Portugal - http://inserralves.pt/pt/

• Nova Iskra, Belgrade –http://novaiskra.com/en    

• Salzburg Global Seminar for Young Cultural Innovators: http://www.salzburgglobal.org/index.php?id=7518

• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org

• StartUp Canada - http://www.startupcan.ca

• The Art Incubator - http://www.theartincubator.org/

• Triodos Bank, The Netherlands: Financing Arts and Culture -  http://www.triodos.com/en/about-triodos-bank/what-we-do/our-expertise-overview/arts-culture/

• Tuli, Finland - http://www.seeplatform.eu/casestudies/TUL

Videos

• Bill Drayton - Ashoka - Social Entrepreneurship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbYzRrLR6Y

• Creative Innovation Summit, 2012: Chris Bilton - http://vimeo.com/44654275

• Difference between Crowdsourcing and Crowdfinancing: https://youtu.be/-38uPkyH9vI

• Flying with angel investors: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1917

• How to pick a venture partner: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1832

• What is Cultural Entrepreneurship, Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard i-Lab - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQOgXbUjyM