Entrepreneurship Engagement in the Arts: The Role of Incubators and Social Media Influencers

Gianluca Zanella and Stan Renard ()
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Gianluca Zanella: Alvarez College of Business, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One University Circle, San Antonio 78249, United States
Stan Renard: Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Program, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, The University of Oklahoma, 540 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73019-0390, United States

Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), 2022, vol. 30, issue 03, 321-341

Abstract: The acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is crucial for economic and social development drives a growing number of educational programs that focus on a wide range of audiences. Nevertheless, some communities are less receptive to entrepreneurship education than others, which hurts the economic potential of their members. This paper focuses on the community of artists, whose members rarely self-identify as entrepreneurs, despite the many similarities between entrepreneurship and artistic careers. This has triggered the creation of educational programs offered by arts incubators aiming to increase the entrepreneurial mindset and awareness among artists. The novelty of these programs explains the absence of metrics to measure the efficacy of their educational offerings on the entrepreneurial awareness among artists. This study proposes a new methodology to assess the impact of arts incubators’ entrepreneurial programs. Based on social theory, the methodology measures the awareness through the analysis of social media posts of incubatees and influencers who graduated from arts incubator programs. The results provide evidence that social media influencers (SMIs) and incubatees do not engage in entrepreneurial-related discussions, thus suggesting that arts entrepreneurship-centric programs are not effective in raising entrepreneurial awareness among artists. The results and implications of these findings are discussed.

Keywords: Arts incubators; arts entrepreneurship; social media influencers; social theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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