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Cultural Entrepreneurship as Public Infrastructure: Enabling the Conditions for Sustainable Cultural and Artistic Practice (2026)

Christer Windeløv-Lidzelius
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Cultural entrepreneurship is commonly discussed in relation to individual agency, innovation, and participation in cultural markets. While these dimensions are important, such framings tend to foreground personal initiative while underarticulating the infrastructural role that entrepreneurial practices play in sustaining cultural and artistic life. This article proposes a reframing of cultural entrepreneurship as a form of public infrastructure: a set of organisational, relational, and institutional practices that enable cultural work to exist, persist, and circulate over time. Rather than presenting an empirical study, the article advances a conceptual argument grounded in long-term engagement with artistic education, project development, and institutional contexts. It suggests that cultural entrepreneurship functions less as a pathway to individual success than as a shared enabling system that absorbs risk, maintains continuity, and mediates between artistic, economic, and institutional logics. In many sett
typeresearch exposition
keywordscultural entrepreneurship cultural infrastructure artistic practice cultural policy public value cultural rights creative labour
date21/01/2026
published21/01/2026
last modified21/01/2026
statuspublished
affiliationStockholm University of the Arts
copyrightCopyright © 2026 Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4137595/4137594
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.4137595
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkhttps://www.uniarts.se/


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