Melanie Selfe & Ealasaid Munro 
Curators of Cultural Enterprise [PDF ebook] 
A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary

This study is based on the authors’ fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses.

Inhoudsopgave

1. Researching Cultural Enterprise Office
2. Nation, state and creative economy
3. Origins and development of CEO
4. Organisational values and practices of support
5. Future-proofing CEO?
6. Where next for cultural business support?

Over de auteur

Philip Schlesinger is Professor in Cultural Policy at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, UK, and is researching Europe’s cultural crisis.
 
Melanie Selfe is Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, UK, and is researching audience development policy.
 
Ealasaid Munro is Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, UK, and is researching rural creative industries.