Creative Industries, Culture-Based Entrepreneurship, and Critical Political Economy: Rethinking of the Blind Spot

Abstract

This study has endeavour to the rethinking of the transformations of culture-based entrepreneurships within Turkey’s creative industries ecosystems. In the present study which is mainly based on “creative diffusions” and “cultural economic geography” theories; the culture-based entrepreneurships have almost been addresses the transformation process of knowledge based societies in Turkey. In the very close history of capitalism, culture-based entrepreneurship has emerged more than the meaning of solely commercial entrepreneurships, in this sense, this study aims to address an important component of Turkey’s innovation network, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir where the cities represent different sections of Turkey’s creative ecosystem, has been chosen as the extent of the investigation. Istanbul, as well as being the European Capital in 2010, the UNESCO creative cities to take part in the design of the city’s network of Ankara, Turkey’s capital is in addition to the information technology field of creative urban transformation plan in Izmir with stand in for the selection of the city said provided an important justification. In the study, on the other hand, the entrepreneurship policies of UNESCO and the European Union in creative industries are evaluated through comparative policy analysis. At the end of the present study, a series of alternative governance models have offers for Turkey.

Keywords

• creative industries
• creative economy
• culture-based entrepreneurship
• cultural geography
• creative diffusion