Message from Goldsmiths

Gerald LIDSTONE

  • Director, Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Director, Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths
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The Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) at Goldsmiths, University of London is delighted to be developing a collaboration with the HKIEd to contribute to the new Executive Master of Arts in Arts Management and Cultural Entrepreneurship. ICCE takes the broader view that Entrepreneurship is the creation of value, this value could be social, aesthetic or financial, and that when entrepreneurial activity is strong the three strands are interwoven.

ICCE has created education for people who are developing businesses around a creative practice or area of expertise. Also education and training for policy makers who want to understand how to create the infrastructure needed to support an environment of creative entrepreneurship. A strong feature of the teaching is engagement which enables students to work with industry partners to develop and explore new enterprises and create new networks within the sector. ICCE courses nurture the skills and attitudes of students to allow them to become innovators and to provide models of entrepreneurial/business support relevant and useful for creative entrepreneurs. They will provide a link between the theoretical aspects of the broader overview of sectors and their specific practices and work to focus on how creativity can be strengthened when put through creative commercialization modelling techniques.

The area of leadership will also be developed through modules from theory to practice, particularly looking at where leadership and entrepreneurship come together. At the same time we look at the policies needed by countries, regions and cities to develop the infrastructure to maintain healthy creative and cultural industries.

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