Bad obsession motorsports – Project Binky
A guilty pleasure of mine is watching a YouTube show called Bad Obsession Motorsports. It’s a car show in which two men are rebuilding a 1980 Mini that they endearingly call Project Binky. As a ...
Creative Business Model Responses to the Corona Crisis
As the world is facing the Covid-19 crisis, many wonder about it’s effect on the short as well as long term. For the cultural sector, the question rises what the post-pandemic arts scene will look ...
Suspicious Antwerp – Unexpected collection drops & limited availability
This case description of the fashion label Suspicious Antwerp, which has created a unique following through its focus on unexpected collection drops, limiting the availability of its products, and using influencer marketing. This contribution is ...
HNST – Radical Transparency
This case study documents the innovative business model developed by HNST, an Antwerp, Belgium based sustainable denim label that focuses on providing radical transparency. This contribution was written by Jolein Van Eyck, graduate student in ...
The Creative Lenses research on business models in the arts
Over the last four years, the team of the Creative Lenses project, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, explored the issue of sustainability of European arts and cultural organisations. In particular, ...
What is a Business Model?
The term ‘Business Model’ is all around in recent years: you hear about it in the news, and you read about them in newspapers constantly. It is also a common question asked to everybody that ...
A commons based business model in music production: Splendor Amsterdam
Since 2013, Splendor Amsterdam unites composers, musicians and stage artists, that came together to form an artist-run cooperative that independently exploits a music venue in which the musicians have complete autonomy. In this initiative, an ...
Circular business models in fashion
Fashion for Good, in collaboration with Accenture Strategy has just released a new interesting report on business models of circular fashion. The study looks into three different models – rental, subscription-rental and recommerce, to assess the financial viability of each when adopted in ...
Creating a logical story
As we know that business modeling is all about creating value for anybody involved in your project: your audience, your clients, yourself, etc… However, the question remains how do we do this? what choices do ...
A creative entrepreneurial process
The creation of a company is a complex and dynamic process consisting of numerous (preparatory) activities and decisions. This entrepreneurial process of business creation is often said to begin with the first consideration to possibly ...