When Culture talks business

Cultural entrepreneurs are resourceful visionaries, generating revenues from culturally embedded knowledge systems and activities; their innovative applications of traditions to markets result in economically sustainable cultural enterprises. Successful entrepreneurs remain mission driven and market-focused, creating both financial wealth and cultural value. Cultural entrepreneurs are key to cultural diversity and sustainability as they reconcile economic, social, environmental, and cultural values. 

• The 2005 Convention: Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
• The Creative Cities Network: Putting Creativity at the Heart of Cooperation among Cities
• Eighteen projects selected in the framework of the UNDP/Spanish Fund for achieving the MDGs: Promoting culture and development
• Strengthening the Creative Industries in Five ACP Countries: Through Employment, Trade Expansion and Culture
• The video of the "Cultures and Developments" Exhibition:  
  Six Minutes of Food for Thought

  Further Reading

• UNESCO World Report 2: Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue
• Creative Economy Report 2008 (pdf)
• The UNESCO Courier: Diversity, a synonym for culture