1. Out of the crisis: the role of
creative industries
Johanna van Antwerpen
23-01-2014 Thessaloniki

2. Summary
1. The role of creative industries in Europe
2. ECIA: the European Creative Industries Alliance
3. How to grow: use good practices

3. Creative industries in Europe
• Key accelerator for economic growth and innovation -> Europe 2020
Strategy
• A sector of around 6.7 million jobs and ± 3% of EU’s GDP, 3.8% of EU
workforce
• A fast growing sector

4. European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIA)

5. ECIAP

6. What is ECIA
• Open platform with policymakers and business support organizations (28
partners, 12 countries)
• Aim: increasing role creative industries as a driver of the European
economy
• Via policy learning based on practice
• Runs from 1-1-2012 till 1-1-2015

7. Tasks of ECIA
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Prepare policy recommendations with concrete masterplans to better support creative industries
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Important themes:
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Cluster excellence
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Spillover effects (a.o. by voucher schemes)
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Demand driven innovation
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Internationalization
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Access to finance
And of course…. Entrepreneurship!
Analyze practices and benchmark

8. How to grow
• For innovation you need a crisis
• Incubator policy: breeding places
• Better access to finance
• Stimulating spillovers
• New markets: internationalization

9. Overview ‘broedplaatsen’ Amsterdam city center

10. Success stories NDSM wharf

11. Shell lab: breeding place for media companies

12. We need creative entrepreneurs
and a facilitating government
www.eciaplatform.eu
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