Innovation @ Creative Industries

Creativity and innovation are of key importance for the economic and social well-being of Europe’s cities. At this, creative industries play an important role due to many reasons: They are a major source of innovative ideas. They offer services and products which contribute to the innovative activities of other entrepreneurs within and outside the creative industries. And by being intense technology users and fast trend follower they often demand even more new developments. Yet, the high impact of creative and cultural workers on the cities’ innovation performance is often not widely known.
Therefore, the international and high profile conference „Innovation @ Creative Industries“ brings together 200 creative workers, artists and key stakeholders from public, private and NGO sectors around Europe to reveal the benefits of the booming creative industries and approaches to stimulate their contribution to innovation capacity of regions.
The conference will be opened by programmatic background information on the concept and importance of innovation from philosophical, political and industrial view points. It will be followed by interactive panel sessions on “Urban Spaces for Innovation” and “Innovation Development” in creative sectors. Various approaches will be presented and discussed by partner cities from the European project CREATIVE METROPOLES – amongst them Amsterdam, Birmingham, Helsinki, Vilnius and Berlin.
Business leaders in cultural, creative, media and IT industries as well as high-ranking officials from governments and regulatory agencies will debate the relationship of creativity and innovation, the role of creative industries for ICT industries and technological developments, and further fields of action in politics, economy, culture and urban planning. The conference programme includes keynote lectures, pecha kucha, interactive sessions, expert panels, and networking roundtables.