Curators of Cultural Enterprise : A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary

Curators of Cultural Enterprise is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO), a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. For a year, the research team had access to all aspects of CEO's work, getting to grips with its routines, relationships with clients, and its place in the wider policy landscape. The researchers regularly discussed their findings with the staff in the course of their investigation. The book considers the rise of creative economy policy-making in the UK and how it was adopted in Scotland. It traces the development of CEO as a new cultural intermediary and how it had to adapt its business model to changing circumstance. This account concludes with questions about the future of such support bodies. Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 7 List of Abbreviations......Page 8 1 Researching Cultural Enterprise Office......Page 10 2 Nation, State and Creative Economy......Page 19 3 Origins and Development of CEO......Page 47 4 Organisational Values and Practices of Support......Page 70 5 Future-Proofing CEO?......Page 90 6 Where Next for Cultural Business Support?......Page 113 Appendix......Page 122 Bibliography......Page 128 Index......Page 138 "This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses." -- Provided by publisher