2018
DOI: 10.1111/caim.12279
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Skills, scope and success: An empirical look at the start‐up process in creative industries in Germany

Abstract: Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyse start‐ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the start‐up process: (1) personal characteristics of creative entrepreneurs, (2) their use of labour and capital as input factors, and (3) start‐up success as measured by start‐up survival, degree of innovativeness and change in household income. Based on i… Show more

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“…in the works of Correa-Quezada et al (2018, pp. 1648-1649, Kohn &Wewel (2018, pp. 295-318), Napadensky Pastene et al (2018.…”
Section: Research Results and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…in the works of Correa-Quezada et al (2018, pp. 1648-1649, Kohn &Wewel (2018, pp. 295-318), Napadensky Pastene et al (2018.…”
Section: Research Results and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Scholars describe cultural entrepreneurs as people who are breaking the rules and crossing boundaries (Spilling, 1991), overcoming obstacles (Amolo & Beharry-Ramraj, 2015), blurring the boundaries between work and personal life (Bridgstock, 2013;Werthes et al, 2018), showing passion and commitment to artistic content, persuasive, prudent and exhibiting courage, hope and faith in what they are doing (Klamer, 2011), risk-taking (Wardani et al, 2017), showing high tolerance of ambiguity, perseverance, self-reliance, autonomy, and creativity (Bhansing et al, 2018;Werthes et al, 2018). Kohn and Wewel (2018) in their recent empirical research on cultural entrepreneurs in Germany, find that they are usually younger and better educated compared to the entrepreneurs in other business sectors.…”
Section: Characteristics and Motivation Of Entrepreneursmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The new model of work, according to Wilson and Stokes (2002), consists of four key ingredients: blurring boundaries between consumption and production and between work and non-work, combination of individualistic values with collaborative working and involvement in the wider creative community. All of these ingredients contribute to the uncertainty in cultural and creative industries, but at the same time, cultural entrepreneurs show a higher degree of introducing market novelties and product or soft innovations (Kohn & Wewel, 2018).…”
Section: Business Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to the aggravation of environmental, socio-economic problems, the level of natural intelligence and talent of humanity is decreasing, and therefore for the economic system the resource of development is not only the acquired knowledge and skills, and above all innate talent. The 21 st century is characterized as the era of a "global war for talents", when developed economies, enterprises compete for both experienced specialists and those who possess only talent, and the role of talented workers in providing competitive advantages is increasing (Kohn 2018).…”
Section: Below)mentioning
confidence: 99%