Simon Delaere

iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Creative Ring Cities Event

Barcelona, Spain, 23 June 2015

the Creative Ring is a new, European-wide, technology-supported

experimental community for artists, creative talents and stakeholders working in the Creative Industries

• Origins and underlying concepts

• From SPECIFI to the Creative Ring

• The basic idea

• Timeline and documents

• The basic value proposition

• The puzzle to solve

• Creative Ring and CreatiFI

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O v e r v i e w

O u r o r i g i n s

• advertising, design, film and video, music, performing arts, printing and publishing , TV/radio, app development …

• industries which combine the creation, production and commercialization of creative content (UNESCO & GACD, 2006)

• at the crossroads between culture, business and technology, making them a source of competitive advantage, not the product of wealth but the origin of it (Florida, 2003)

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C r e a t i v e I n d u s t r i e s m a t t e r !

Smart cities are creative cities

Creative cities need to connect

• Demonstrated the positive impacts of a European Creative Ring of Smart Cities and Regions with real-life users and producers, and in 5 real (certified) Living Labs active in 3 smart cities and their surrounding regions.

• Pilots combined (1) connected smart areas –locally, regionally, and internationally, (2) open ultrafast Internet platforms and infrastructures, and (3) innovative arts, media and leisure services.

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S P E C I F I o b j e c t i v e s

• Partner Living Labs organized pilot experiments in 3 (inter)connected city-regions, i.e. Kortrijk city and Flanders region (Belgium), Barcelona city and Catalonia region (Spain), and Trento city and the Trentino region (Italy)

• Technology, user and business aspects equally important!

• Specific focus on (performing) artsand tourism

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S P E C I F I p i l o t s

Connecting and empowering CI helps!

• Creative Industries involved developedadditional use cases, experiments, deployments

• Resulting products/services/performances with high relevance to regional and localgovernments

• International exposure of local initiatives

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W h a t w e l e a r n e d

T h e C r e a t i v e R i n g c o n s i s t s o f

Inspiring Hubs Creative Tools

Talented Partners Cool Projects

• Preparations started already in January 2013, starting from core partners

• Soft launch (creativering.eu) in April 2014 (event @ The Egg)

• Official launch event: 23 June 2015, Barcelona: additional cities to help shape the Ring!

C r e a t i v e R i n g t i m e l i n e

Participating cities :• Barcelona (E)• Amsterdam (NL)• Mons/Charleroi (BE)• Liverpool (UK)• Aarhus (DK)• Eindhoven (NL)• Bristol (UK)• Kerkrade (NL)• Brussels (B)• Athens (GR)• Istanbul (TR)• Montréal (CN)

Participating partners:• iMinds (BE)• I2CAT (ES)• European Network of Living Labs• Createnet (IT)

Creative Ring should provide

• Visibility: an international platform and marketplace for Creative Industries

• Activity: joint thematic activities and experiments to strengthen these industries

• Advocacy: Promote CI interests at EU level

• Liquidity: additional funding for innovation

T h e b a s i c v a l u e p r o p o s i t i o n

Components have to be given shape:

• A collection of hubs

• A connection between creative communities

• A repository of tools

• A deployment of co-creation technologies

• A definition of concrete themes for action

• A agenda of joint activities

• A platform for funding and advocacy

T h e p u z z l e t o s o l v e

CreatiFI, an acceleration program for startups & SMEs in Creative Industries

T h e C r e a t i v e R i n g e m b r a c e s

The European Commission launched

in September 2014 a massive call

for web entrepreneurs, SMEs and

startups

80 Million EUROS

DISTRIBUTED ACROSS EUROPE

TO DEVELOP FUTURE INTERNET

APPS

FIWARE is a vibrant ecosystem of active contributors who commit to sustainability

• 16 accelerator programs across Europe

• 24 development partners

• 50 engaged Open & Agile Smart Cities

• 300+ ICT innovation partners (experts & hubs)

• 500+ FIWARE funded Startups & SME’s

• 2500+ trained FIWARE developers

C r e a t i F I o f f e r s a c c e s s

Open Source Technology

Economicimpact

Funding, business modeling support

European

Exposure

C r e a t i F I , A c c e l e r a t i o n P r o g r a m

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Augmented Reality

Digital & Social

Media

Film & Video

Music & Lights

Gaming

City as an operating system for open innovation

C r e a t i v e H u b s a r e i n v i t e d

Member of Jury Match Making

Co-Creation Living Lab Validation

• 2nd Open Call from August 1 to September 30

• Jury per hub during last week of October ’15

• Match Making between Creative Hubs and Selected Projects in November ‘15

• Living Labs in first half of 2016

• Final Event & Special Awards in October ‘16

C r e a t i F I T i m i n g

• Who does what

• Governance

• Financing

• Next steps

F u r t h e r q u e s t i o n s f o r c o - c r e a t i o n

U s e f u l d o c u m e n t a t i o n

And now, to work!

Simon Delaere

firstname . lastname @ vub . ac . be

iMinds-SMIT

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pleinlaan 9 – 1050 Brussels - Belgium

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