5th Vienna Music Business Research Days in Retrospective

The 5th Vienna Music Business Research Days were devoted to the question “How to Monetize Music in the Digital Age”? Academics and business professionals  answered this questions from different perspectives. The VMBR-Days 2014 were held in cooperation with the Waves Vienna Music Festival & Conference and attracted an even larger international audience than in the years before. On Oct 3rd, a conference track day complemented the invited conference day on Oct 2nd for the first time. Academics from Austria, Australia, Brasil, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom presented recent findings of a wide range of music business research topics.

The Young Scholars’ Workshop gathered for the fourth time students and mentors/discussants from more than 10 countries to discuss the findings a papers derived from master and PhD theses (see also the webpage of the Young Scholars’ Workshop 2014).

For a detailed coverage of the whole conference– including most of the papers and presentation slides as well as the audio streams of all talks and discussions of Oct 2nd – please click here.

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Introducing our guests: Emilien Moyon, Program Director at Berklee College of Music Valencia

The 5th Vienna Music Business Research Days will be held at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from Oct 1-3, 2014.  A mixed group of music business professionals and music business researcher will highlight the question on “How to Monetize Music in the Digital Age” from different perspectives. All conference guest that will present/discuss on Oct 2, 2014 in Joseph Haydn-Hall will be introduced in a short blog series.

Emilien Moyon, Director of the Global Entertainment and Music Business Program at Berklee College of Music, Valencia will open the Vienna Music Business Research Days 2014 with a talk on “Business Model Innovation in the Recording Industry” on Oct 2 from 09:15-10:00 in Joseph Haydn-Hall.

Emilien Moyon is Associate Professor and specialized in Business Model Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy (http://valencia.berklee.edu/academic-programs/faculty/emilien-moyon/)

He holds a PhD in Strategy for which he received the 2012 award for the best PhD dissertation in France. His research focuses on the business model innovation process. His academic work was published in top academic journals such as International Studies of Management and Organization or Management International and presented to international conferences. Dr. Moyon is also a co-founder of the Business Model Community, an academic community involving more than 250 researchers worldwide.

To share the results of his research to practitioners in the music industry, Emilien Moyon co-organizes Rethink Music which was created to explore and understand the changing dynamics of the music and creative industries.

Emilien Moyon is also the founder and director of TEDxBerkleeValencia (http://tedxberkleevalencia.com).

Click for the detailed conference programme here: https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/vienna-music-business-research-days-2/