Educating innovators: entrepreneurship in digital humanities in Italy

Entrepreneurship is always characterised by the ability to combine resources and competencies in novel ways, often spanning across disciplines and boundaries. A relatively young new field requiring a full swing of entrepreneurial competencies is that of digital humanities, where information and communication technologies and digital technologies meet the vast realm of humanities, from archaeology to philology, from language studies to history, from visual arts to performative ones. This chapter presents a first assessment of the diffusion of entrepreneurship education in its different forms in digital humanity programmes across Italy and discusses the implications for individual opportunity building and broader policy interventions.