creative & community entrepreneurship & place making
Creative & Community Enterprise
Creative Economist works with community and creative enterprises, helping launch new ideas and secure investment to grow, multiply, impact or refocus when markets fail. Whether you are a long established venture wanting to scale up or multiply, or just have an idea, Creative Economist works with inspiring enterprises at every stage of their life cycle. We help build networks and secure opportunities to make you independently sustainable.
Place Making
You may be a community group trying to improve your area; a local authority or housing association who want to build community wealth where traditional regeneration has failed; a retail park or heritage group keen to find new uses for old buildings; or have new developments that lack content, purpose, atmosphere or ground floor uses.
Market Disruption
When markets are failing, it is tempting to try to save them, cut costs, do more - of the same. But, if the market is changing, no longer serving the intended purpose or locality, it may be time to try something very different. Creative Economist is experienced in responding to market failures and creatively disrupting markets to deliver better returns for investors, customers, residents and stakeholders.
Gender + Leadership
Creative Economist founder Erika Rushton is a consistent advocate of the benefits women and diversity, when empowered in numbers, offer to local and global economies and communities. Creative Economist draws on our consistent findings and wider unequivocal evidence, of the potential of gender balanced leadership to deliver more inclusive, cooperative and economically successful outcomes for everybody.