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Creative Capital
Lab™
Culture Counsel’s proprietary framework for strengthening ownership, enterprise development, deal literacy, and value retention within the creative economy.
Inaugural partnershipCreative Capital Lab™ launched through an inaugural institutional partnership with Women in Film.
The Framework
Four disciplines. One framework.
Ownership
Clarity on what is created, what is controlled, and what is retained.
Deal Literacy
Reading, negotiating, and structuring agreements that determine where value flows.
Value Retention
Ensuring creators, communities, and institutions keep the value they help produce.
Enterprise Development
Building creative work into durable, sustainable enterprise.
How the Lab works
Creative Capital Lab™ is delivered through facilitated modules, applied case discussions, and practical exercises tailored to the institution and its participants. Participants work through decisions about ownership, partnerships, financing, and commercialization, applying the framework to their own creative projects and enterprises.
Engagements can be structured as a cohort series, an intensive workshop, or an integrated institutional program. Scope and delivery are developed around the partner’s objectives, market, and intended outcomes.
What participants take away
- Ownership clarityMap creative assets, identify the rights they control, and examine where value is generated or lost.
- Deal evaluation skillsAssess proposed partnerships, identify risks, and prepare informed questions for negotiation.
- An actionable decision frameworkAnalyze a project or opportunity, weigh tradeoffs, and identify priorities and next steps.
Designed for
- Universities
- Incubators
- Cultural institutions
- Industry organizations
- Public-sector partners
Creative Capital Lab™
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