Space instead of Subsidy

Dutch electronic dance music is experiencing a great boom domestically and globally. Everywhere in the Netherlands there are more and more electronic dance music events being organized. Though 15 years ago Rotterdam was a market leader in the Netherlands, it is now just reemerging from a slump. Although the sector is regaining strength in Rotterdam, it is going slowly. This research aims to understand and map the practices and patterns of the organizers that are managing to emerge without using subsidies. Also it looks to understand the difficulties they are posed by environmental factors. In applying semi-structured interviews the research aimed to develop an in-depth qualitative understanding. This showed that political forces are indirectly impeding the creative freedom of the entrepreneurs by inadvertently subsidizing competition.