Programme overview

Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship is one of the three specialisations within the master Arts and Culture Studies. This specialisation explores the themes creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship thoroughly within the cultural and creative sectors. These themes will be explored in a variety of lectures, seminars and research workshops, offering a mix of theories, empirical research and research methods.

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Students acquire a solid background in cultural economics, creative entrepreneurship, and research methods. They learn about the latest theoretical developments in the economics of: cultural and creative industries, cultural organisations and management, innovation, digitisation, cultural heritage, art markets, performing arts, fashion, music, video games, and about culture beyond markets.

In seminars, workshops and during fieldtrips to a variety of cultural organisations students will apply the knowledge to real, current cases. At the end of the year, you will combine everything you have learned in your master thesis. Your master thesis is the moment to put your gained knowledge and skills to the test. Supervised by one of our experienced lecturers, you will conduct empirical research and write a thesis on a topic of your choice.

Students before you wrote their master thesis on subjects such as the digitalisation of the music industry, NFTs and the changing art market, creative cities and clusters, fashion, craft entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, decision making in performing arts, cultural leadership in museums, consumption of videogames, and many more.

Course overview

Below you will find the study schedule of the master specialisation Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship. If you want to know more about a particular course, you can enter the course code in the Course Catalogue.