Stimulating Creative Entrepreneurial Initiatives: A flow diagram for strategic planning

Abstract

[Abstract]: This paper contributes to the organizational study of the creativity applied to business innovation through the analysis of three propositions: (1) there are substantial differences between Creative Entrepreneurial Initiatives (CEIs) and non-CEIs, regarding to human capital factors, structural capital factors, intellectual property and creative value chain; (2) there are institutional, financial and educational barriers that limits the creation of CEIs in South Europe (Portugal, France, Spain), and (3) the adaptation of organizational measures of stimulus to the specificity of CEIs through a flow diagram can reduce the limiting effect of the barriers detected by CEIs. From this approach, researchers and policy makers can obtain a better understanding of the specificities of the CIEs from a sectoral, strategic and organizational focus.