This document discusses cultural and creative industries (CCIs), especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and their entrepreneurial dimension. It defines CCIs as industries that use culture as an input, such as architecture, advertising, design, and fashion. The entrepreneurial dimension of CCIs includes self-employment and assuming risks to create new products, organizations, markets, and production methods. CCIs are characterized by non-traditional employment, short product lifecycles, experience-based goods, and serving as drivers of economic growth, innovation, and technological change through creativity, design, and cultural content.

1. Rene Kooyman 4 February 2010 Creative Industries as key strategic sector The entrepreneurial dimensionof cultural and creative industriesespecially SMEs

3. innovative practices, and/or assuming entrepreneurial risk

6. Staff headcount - turnover Creative industries:

8. Creative Partnership – Two creative people

9. Designer and Business Partner – One creative and one business partner

10. Designer and Licensing Partner – Designer under royalty contract

11. Designer and Manufacturer – Designer in contractual agreement with manufacturer

12. Partnership with Investor – Designer in partnership with a formal investorNESTA 2008

15. Professional achievement

16. Art creation

18. Thrives on numerous small initiatives

19. Careerwise a high degree of uncertainty

20. Non-conventional forms of employment; part-time work, temporary contracts, self-employment , free-lancers

21. Multiple job-holdings; combined other sources of income

22. New type of employer; the ‘entrepreneurial individual’ or ‘entrepreneurial cultural worker’

23. No longer fits into previously typical patterns of full-time professions

25. Hypercompetitive environment

26. Knowledge-based and labour-intensive input

27. Not ‘simply merchandise’, but express cultural uniqueness and identities

28. Experience goods; production and consumption ‘on the spot’

31. CCIs stand at the core of cultural and industrial networks

32. CCIs and Technological change/digitisation two-way process

33. CCIs indispensable at Corporate Identity and Branding