Trine Bille

Presentation

Trine Bille received her PhD degree from University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics in 1996. She is an economist with an interest in arts and culture, making cultural economics and policy her main research areas. She has published more than 100 books and articles in a variety of outlets. Her work is published in the leading scientific journals of her research field, e.g. Journal of Cultural Economics and International Journal of Cultural Policy, and general leading journals in social science, e.g. Economic Letters, Kyklos, Applied Economics and European Planning Studies, as well as book chapters in books published at leading publishers as Routledge, Elsevier Science and Edward Elgar Publishing, including Handbook of the Economics of Arts and Culture (Series Handbook of Economics, Elsevier Science). Her work has been cited by leading scholars in cultural economics, including Bruno S. Frey, Mark Blaug, David Throsby, Michael Hutter and Ruth Towse. She has been elected as the coming president of ACEI, the Association of Cultural Economics International (the leading academic association of the field) from 2018. She is often a keynote speaker at conferences, and she is often used as consultant and advisor, for e.g. The Royal Danish Theater, The Danish Ministry of Culture and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.   

Primary research areas

• Cultural economics / The economics of the arts
• Cultural entrepreneurship
• Cultural policy
• Creative industries and experience economy
• Urban and regional development
• Economic valuation

Courses

• Responsible for the development and manager of a new MSc study program (cand.soc.) in Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship, which is a collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and KADK, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
• Member of Study Board and coordinator of the Arts and Culture concentration at BSc Business Administration and Service Management
• Course coordinator and teacher: "Cultural Economics and Politics", BSc Business Administration and Service Management"
   

Supervision

• Numerous Master theses and Bachelor theses. Different study programmes at CBS.
• Current PhD supervision: Hanna Storm (INO, CBS), Sidsel Kjems (University of Copenhagen), Cecilie Bryld Fjællegaard (INO, CBS).