The College of Arts, within Development Week, holds a workshop entitled How to establish commercial art businesses at home that contribute to economic growth
Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Diyala, Professor Dr. Alaa Shaker Mahmoud, and within the Sustainable Development Week and in cooperation with the Continuing Education Division at the college, the College of Fine Arts held today, Tuesday, 7/9/2024, a workshop entitled How to establish commercial artistic businesses at home that contribute to the growth of the economy. .
The workshop, which was lectured by the Head of the Art Education Department, Assistant Professor Hussein Muhammad Ali Hussein Shehadha, included several points that he touched upon, the most important of which were:
Innovation and artistic entrepreneurship play a vital role in driving economic growth and development. Innovation refers to the process of creating new artistic ideas, products or services that improve existing ideas or meet needs that are not available in the market. Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, involves identifying and exploiting business opportunities. By creating new artistic projects or expanding existing ones.
When innovation and entrepreneurship are combined effectively, it enhances economic growth and development in several ways, including:
Innovation and technical entrepreneurship drive job creation and economic prosperity, as innovative ideas and entrepreneurial projects often lead to the creation of new jobs, because they require a technical workforce to develop, produce and market new products or services, and these new job opportunities contribute to the country’s overall economic growth and improving the level of Individual livelihood, in addition, encourages competitive entrepreneurship and drives productivity, as entrepreneurs seek to differentiate their products or services from existing products or services resulting in increased efficiency and economic development.
In conclusion, the workshop lecturer reviewed several artistic models that were created at very low costs, which gave an artistic and aesthetic impression and whose production and marketing could be increased as part of artistic works.
