The Duluth Manifesto on Cultural Entrepreneurship

We, the participants from fifteen nations on five continents who met at Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America, from the 10th to 12th of June, 2015, at the First International

Conference on Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship, agreed upon the following Manifesto.

Having discussed and addressed policies, pedagogies and curriculum development for teaching and learning cultural entrepreneurship within a global perspective, we issue the

following summary of our conclusions:

1. Imagination, creativity, and innovation are fundamental and potential resources for the vitality, sustainability, and continuing enrichment of cultures, economies, and societies.

2. Cultural entrepreneurs use imagination and creativity, specifically focusing on the ways in which crafts, cultural assets, community arts, visual and performing arts can be deployed to

enrich individuals and communities, to develop creative activities, improve the quality of life, and preserve and enhance the specificities and diversity of our respective cultures.

3. Cultural and social entrepreneurs undertake risks and cooperate in order to renew society and cultures in important ways, vital to all nations and peoples.

4. Cultural entrepreneurship is not only an attitude, but also an increasing form of work and practice, opening new jobs and opportunities in the emerging knowledge economy,

developing innovative forms of cooperation inside and outside of the creative industries; including all strata and strands within an evolving society.

5. People of all ages, particularly the young, need purposeful yet playful, dynamic, and engaging learning environments that invoke and provoke, explore and experience, challenge

and inspire, develop and inform, discover and create, and assess and improve their lives. Education in cultural entrepreneurship gives a lot of opportunities to universities and other

learning institutions to open their doors to society; and exploring such new ways of learning in continuous interaction with society.

6. Institutions across primary, secondary, and higher education as well as informal learning institutions must nourish the human spirit in an interdisciplinary manner that bridges

knowledge, real-world experience, and personal, social and business competencies. The end result is a valuable asset - personal and cultural capital - that pays dividends across one’s life

and throughout society.

7. Ongoing research, connected to practice, policy-making and education, is needed to contribute to the professionalization of cultural entrepreneurship. Platforms like

conferences are compulsory to create fruitful and open dialogues among educators, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

Wendy Andberg

Walden University, USA

Dennis Cheek

National Creativity Network, USA

Hua Dai

Ocean University, China

Robert Davis

Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom

Iris Eshel

HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands

John Forsman

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller

Ohio State University, USA

Scott Graden

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Geir Grothen

Telemark University College, Norway

Jeannette Guillemin

Boston University, USA

Giep Hagoort

Amsterdam School of Management, The Netherlands

Brea Heidelberg

Rider University, USA

Monika Herzig

Indiana University, USA

Kristen Hylenski

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Aparna Katre

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Rene Kooyman

United Nations Institute on Training and Research UNITAR, Switzerland

Olaf Kuhlke

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Melanie Levick-Parkin

Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Yirong Luo

Ocean University, China

Susan N. Maher

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Willie Monteiro

University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Manuel Montoya

University of New Mexico, USA

Marco Mossinkoff

HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands

Guillermo Olivares

Valdivia Creative, Chile

Jonathan Otis

Duluth, USA

Izabella Parowicz

European University Viadrina, Germany/Poland

Karla Penna

Murdoch University, Australia

Maureen Salmon

University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Cristiane Schnack

Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, Brazil

Annick Schramme

University of Antwerp/Antwerp Management School, Belgium

President ENCATC

Jeremy Shtern

Ryerson University, Canada

Hallur Tor Sigurdarson

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Wendy Swart Grossman

Boston University, USA

Jorge Eduardo Tinoco

Center for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation, Brazil

Marilena Vecco

Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bruno Verbergt

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Margaret Wyszomirski

Ohio State University, USA

Shengbing Zhang

Ocean University, China