Taking care of yourself for long term survival -- Opportunities -- Having a plan -- The pitch deck and internal budgets -- Debt & investment -- Margins & cashflow -- Taxes, insurance, lawyers & retirement -- Bandwidth & hiring -- Portfolio and bidding -- Marketing, networking and promotion --...

Introduction / Colette Henry -- The nature of creative entrepreneurship -- The creative industries in East and Southeast Asia / Desmond Hui -- Art-entrepreneurship in the Scandinavian music industry / Maria Aggestam -- Creative industries in the UK : cultural diffusion or discontinuity? / David...

The creative industries represent a vital, exciting and rapidly changing field of activity; one that is now recognised as a key growth sector in the knowledge-based economy. However, there is still a general lack of understanding of what is meant by the term 'creative industry,' and the creative...