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Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts  Volume 5, Issue 2 
http://artivate.org  pp. 1-2 
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE SUMMER 2016 ISSUE 
Linda Essig, Arizona State University 
 

 
This summer issue of Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts sees the third 

installment in our “Perspectives” series. Founding editorial board members Gordon Shockley 
and Laura Zabel are joined by our newest editorial board member Neville Vakharia in sharing 
their perspective on arts entrepreneurship as a field of practice and inquiry. Vakharia suggest that 
that taking a knowledge-centric approach, an approach that has supported the success of arts 
organizations, could benefit individual arts entrepreneurs. Zabel, too, puts the individual artist at 
the center of the arts entrepreneurship construct, questioning how we as a field can articulate and 
measure the scale and impact of artists. Shockley positions arts entrepreneurship historically in 
the context of evolving federal policy decisions. 

The two feature articles in this this issue both advance our conceptions of arts 
entrepreneurship, in part by articulating the boundaries of “arts” entrepreneurship alongside 
“cultural” entrepreneurship and “creative” entrepreneurship. In “Entrepreneurship in the Cultural 
and Creative Industries: Insights from an Emergent Field,” Andrea Hausmann and Anne Hienze 
undertake a systematic review of literature to compare the defining characteristics of these three 
domains. They find multiple overlapping definitions across four research areas and multiple 
research subjects. Tena Patten employs interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews 
with three members of the creative industries to indicate that creative industry entrepreneurs do 
not align themselves with traditional entrepreneurship discourses. Her article, “‘Creative?’… 
‘Entrepreneur?’ – Understanding The Creative Industries Entrepreneur,” also brings to the fore, 
at least for this reader, ongoing questions of the very distinctions between “arts,” “cultural,” and 
“creative” entrepreneurs examined by Hausmann and Heinz. 

For the past two years, Dr. Joe Roberts has served as co-editor of Artivate: A Journal of 
Entrepreneurship in the Arts while also leading the Coleman Fellows program and fulfilling his 
role as a faculty member at Webster University. On July 1, Dr. Roberts assumed the position of 
Chair, Management Department in the Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster 
and stepped down from his co-editorship. He will remain with the Artivate team as a member of 
the editorial board. We are also pleased to welcome Neville Vakharia to the editorial board. Dr. 
Vakharia is Assistant Professor and Research Director in the Westphal College of Media Arts & 
Design at Drexel University.  

Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts accepts articles for consideration at 
any time. To assure consideration for the Winter 2017 issue of Artivate, please submit your 
article no later than October 1, 2016. Artivate will publish its first “Special Issue” in Summer 
2017 on the topic of Arts Entrepreneurship and Creative Placemaking. A special call for 
submissions will be distributed in early 2017 with an April 1, 2017 submission deadline.  
  



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