Cross- cultural research in management acknowledges that culture is a dominant  force that can influence several business activities such as entrepreneurship (Schaffer and Riordan, 2003). The role of networks in stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship is well-documented in international research (Granovetter, 1973; Aldrich & Zimmer, 1985; Greve & Salaff, 2003; Burt, 2004; Renzulli & Aldrich, 2005; Foss, 2006; Rost, 2011).) In the cultural  industry, entrepreneurial networking may be important as it may increase artists’ creativeness through cultural collaboration and access to important stakeholders (i.e. curators, customers, financiers, organizations). This paper uses a funding programme for Culture in the Nordic-Baltic to investigate how the cultural workers’ and artists’ networks affect trust, collaboration, creativity and learning.