BEN Creative Industries

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BEN Creative Industries

• Šarunas Radvilavicius
• Petrozavodsk, 2008.12.12

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Definition of Creative Industries (CI)

• Creative industries are those industries which
  have their origin in individual creativity, skill
  and talent and which have a potential for wealth
  and job creation through the generation and
  exploitation of intellectual property. The
  creative industries include
• literature and print media
• visual and performing arts
• music composition and publishing
• new media such as animation, games and internet
  content design
• broadcasting electronic media and film
• heritage activities.
• UK Government Department for Culture, Media and
  Sport (DCMS) 2001, p.1.

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Background / Problems

• New concept of creative industries (CI),
  possibilities to utilize in the development of
  knowledge society and economic development in
  border regions
• Specific problems unique possibilities of
  border regions need to develop new solutions in
  order to support the economic deveopment of the
  regions
• How to develop innovative solutions within
  creative industries that could be utilized in the
  development of cross-border tourism?
• How to utilize the cultural differencies of
  cross-border areas?
• Business possibilities of creative
  people/artists?
• Creative industries as a cluster how to link
  creative industries into other expertice/knowledge
  clutsers?

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Objectives

• Overall objective Increase capacity of
  cross-border regions in development of creative
  industries for social-economic growth of their
  territories, especially focusing to possibilities
  to enhance the groth of tourism industry. To
  enhance cross-border cooperation in participating
  regions
• To promote the development of tourism industry
  and increase of attractiveness of the region by
  developing new products/services based to the
  creative industries
• To establish new facilities for supporting
  innovativeness and business skills of the
  artists/creative people
• To develop new strategies for local, regional and
  national authorities for supporting creative
  industries
• To facilitate dialogue between regional/local
  authorities, business, artists community and
  academica in the border regions.

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Target groups

• Regional and local authorities of border regions
  in the BSR
• Euroregions and other CBC structurs
• Business community in border regions
• Artists community in border regions
• Academic and research institutions.

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Project structure
WP 1 Project Management
WP 2 Communication Dissemination
WP3 Research Studies
WP4 Training Activities
WP 6 Regional Cross-border pilots
WP 5 Institution Building Activities
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WP 1 Project Management

• WP1 Leader Lappeenranta Innovation
• Project Management Group
• Meetings bi-annually
• Financial procedures
• Procedures for project reporting
• Communication with project financers
• Utilization of Severa PSA project management
  system
• De-centralized financial management
• Results
• - Effective and transpearent management
  coordination of the project

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WP 2 Communication Dissemination

• WP 2 leader Peipsi Center for Transboundary
  Cooperation
• Dissemination activities
• Web-sites development
• Project newsletters brochures
• Exchange of best practices
• Seminars for the project partners
• Collection and dissemination of information
• policies and strategies in Creative Industries
• activities of partner regions
• Networking with other projects and relevant
  cooperation organisations
• Results
• - Web-site
• - newsletters
• - materials of the seminars
• - studies

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WP 3 Research Development Studies

• WP 3 Leader Copenhagen Business School
• Comparative studies of the creative industries in
  the Baltic Stea Region
• Research of the economic potential of the
  creative industries in the cross-border regions
• Research work based to the pilot activities
• Results
• - x number studies

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WP 4 Training activities

• WP 5 Leader Humak University of Applied Science
• Training of different target groups of the
  project
• Creative enterprises artists
• Tourism organisations
• Local/regional authorities
• Results
• - training moduls
• - x persons trained
• - x training sessions arranged in selected
  regions and for all partners.

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WP 5 Institution building

• WP 6 Leader ??
• Developing advisory capacity for long term
  support in border areas how to serve business
  needs and local development
• Setting up innovation centers in the border
  regions with advisory capacity
• Establishing nettworks/associations of creative
  industries in the region
• Defining non-bureaucratic models for creative
  industries
• Results
• - X number of new institutions established
  (clusters, CI centers, CI councils etc.)

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WP 6 Regional Cross-border Pilots

• WP 7 Leader Lappeenranta Innovation
• Establishment of 1-3 innovation centres of
  cross-border creative industries (every center
  having own focus area)
• Selection of enterprises/artists and reserches to
  take part in piloting activities
• Testing and development of tools created in the
  framework of the project

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Project Partnership

1. Lappeenranta Innovation (FIN) Lead Partner
   (FI)
2. Peipsi CTC (EE)
3. Tchudskoj project (RUS)
4. Humak University of Applied Art (FIN)
5. Center for Tourism and Culture Management of the
   Copenhagen School of Economics (DK)
6. Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy
   of Science (RUS)
7. Vyborg municipality (RUS)
8. Siauliai County Governors Administration (LT)
9. Zemgale Planning Region (LV)
10. International Secretariat of Euroregion Baltic
    (PL)
11. Latvian office of Euroregion Country of Lakes
    (LV)
12. Murmans City Youth Council (RUS)
13. Finmark County (NO)
14. Glubokoje District (BY)
15. Secretariat of Euroregion Belovezhskaia
    Pushtcha (BY)
16. Nordic Council of Ministers (DK)
17. Secretariat of CBSS (SE)
18. Kaliningrad regional non-governmental
    organisation Agency for support of cultural
    initiatives Tranzit (RUS)
19. NGO Arhipelaag (EE)