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Alice Loy, PhDCo-founder & Director of Programs
CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP:AT THE CROSSROADS OF PEOPLE, PLACE , AND PROSPERITY
A meaningful path to prosperity
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
Connecting us to our past
Foretelling our future?
Hawaiian Islands, USA
Bali, Indonesia
Suzhou, China
San Francisco, California
México
Nuevo México
Photo: Larry Lamsa
Entrepreneurship is
The pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently under control.
Risk
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
Marketing
Finance
Operations
Profitable Outcomes
Team
“Entrepreneurship is
self-determination.”
~ Lisa Little Chief, PhD
“Unless communities can think about what
they have to offer themselves, they’ll
either get stuck trying to be what another
place already is, or be held back trying to be something they used
to be.”
~ Nate Berg
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
Jonathan SimsNo Reservations Productions
FACTORY ECONOMY CREATIVE ECONOMY
Creative Industries Globally
2000-2005 8.7% growth
2008 14% growth
$425 billion in trade
USA
Employs 40 million Americans
756,007 “Arts” businesses
New Mexico
12% of workforce
University of Minnesota: Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Entrepreneurship
Rachel Vitko
The Cultural Industries:
• Performance arts
• Fine arts
• Film and music
• Publishing
• Planning & architecture
• Food & agriculture
• Crafts
• Tourism & Recreation
• Media/journalism
Kathleen Fontaine
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2003
THE CREATIVE/CULTURAL ECONOMY
Creative/Cultural Economy
Creative/Cultural Clusters
Creative/Cultural
Entrepreneurs
“Cultural entrepreneurs are
functional navigators --skillful
alchemists--combining aspects and
processes from multiple systems
to create cultural balance and
improved livelihoods
for their families and
communities.”Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
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GCCE’s theory of change
OUR MISSION
Creative/Cultural
Entrepreneurs
GCCE PROGRAMS
• GCCE Fellows• PowerUp! • Market Links• Northern New Mexico Cultural
Corridor• Sustainable Native Communities
Collaborative• Research and Field Development
“We do not exist solely, we exist together.”Patricia Michaels, GCCE Fellow
Taos Pueblo Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2010
Rulan Tangen, GCCE Fellow
“The challenge for an economy is to move from isolated firms
to an array of clusters, and upgrade the array of clusters to more advanced activities.”
~ Global Competitiveness Report, World Economic Forum
*Albuquerque
Northern New Mexico Cultural Corridor
*Taos
*Santa FeLos Alamos*
Pueblos *
*Los Lunas
Rio Grande Agritourism Corridor
SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE
& INDIGENOUS DESIGN & PLANNING
INSTITUTE
Children living in families with cultural
entrepreneurs:• experience less poverty• receive more education• learn indigenous language• live in two-parent households
2010 CROSSROADS REPORT
“Cultural entrepreneurship
allows a community to take its unique voice to
the world.”
“Cultural enterprises create
a venue for an exchange of spirit.”
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
What’s next?
