This high profile conference 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.