Entrepreneurship is essentially a creative activity, even if creativity is not limited to the entrepreneurial creativity. Thus creative economy shares some of the most significant properties of an entrepreneurial economy. Creative activities rely on innovations, vision and talent of authors, creators and performers. Development opportunities related to changes in cultural practices also require a high degree of alertness from creative economy stakeholders. Besides, creative economy must cope with high demand uncertainty. As entrepreneurial creativity, artistic and cultural creativity is an activity based on risk. Creative economy combines two types of entrepreneurs. A first type relies on the shifts that occurred in the cultural policies of cities and in the proximity dynamics of creative clusters. And the second type is linked to the economy of contribution and to its different application fields, especially digital economy and social economy.
Entrepreneurship in the creative economy