David delivers online workshops for artists and creative practitioners about Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta.
Working in partnership with In Place of War, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta, David helped artists and creatives to become even more successful through CASE Malta, the Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme.
He has delivered workshops for participants in the CASE Malta programme in January and June 2023, February 2025 and in February 2025.
David’s interactive sessions discuss artists’ objectives and personal definitions of ‘success’ before moving on to the essentials of entrepreneurship for creatives.
In David’s workshops about Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta, he draws on relevant examples of entrepreneurship from artists and creative entrepreneurs, from his international experience of having worked in more than 60 countries around the world.
Here are some online resources for artists and creative practitioners, relating to David’s workshops on Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta:
Two kinds of Creativity: ‘a-Creativity’ and ‘i-Creativity’. Article and video from TEDx Napoli.
Create Your Own Business Formula (article)
Free article about devising a winning business strategy in the creative industries. In English and several other languages available here.
‘Designing Your Creative Business’ toolkit publication.
The complete toolkit publication in full-colour PDF format (16 pages) – online here.
T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity (Free eBook in English)
The free eBook version in English is available here.
RE-Designing your Creative Business. A video-based online course and toolkit, which contains a section on idea generation, online here.
In a collaboration with Monash University in Australia, David produced a series of videos for the course in Creative Entrepreneurship.
Here’s a link to a complete list of free online resources for creative entrepreneurs. Video-based courses and toolkits, books and other products are online here.
Read ‘Ideas in Action’ article from Malta, featuring CASE Malta participant Diellza Ilgner:
How to Find Your Niche as an Artist.
Creative businesses worldwide have achieved greater success by attending David’s creative business training workshops and webinars for entrepreneurs in the creative, cultural and digital industries.
Webinars and Online Workshops: David’s creative business training workshops for creative entrepreneurs are also provided as webinars and online workshops, sometimes in combination with other online business support.
His creative business management workshops, webinars and masterclasses include Designing Your Creative Business, marketing, business strategy, financial management, leadership, pricing, commercialising intellectual property, business growth strategies, exporting and international business.
David has delivered his ‘Designing Your Creative Business’ workshop internationally using his DYCB Toolkit publication.
Creative business training workshops also draw on material in David’s books. Signed paperback copies of his books are sometimes included with the training workshop materials that participants take away to use in their creative businesses and cultural enterprises. Copies of books can be supplied for creative industries training workshops by arrangement.