Cultural heritage entrepreneurship (CHE) - challenges and difficulties

The research analyses the situation of Cultural Heritage Entrepreneurship (CHE) in SEE countries participating in Sagittarius Project (EU-7). A special attention is payed to the problem of CHE contribution to economic recovery and re launching sustainable development taking into considerations challenges and barriers related to: lack of financial sources; access to market and innovation; intellectual property rights; education and training. An intercountry comparison of CHE characteristics and at the EU-7 and EU-27 levels reveals a series of difficulties and shortcomings for the case of Sagittarius countries in the period 2009-2012. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.