Creative Industries

Creating New Markets - Six ongoing projects
The Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe) currently has six Nordic-Baltic projects running within the thematic area Creative Industries.

The projects develop both policy recommendations and strategies for implementation at national and regional levels as well as user-friendly concrete actions on how to professionalize the Creative Industries.

Please find a short presentation of the projects and project leaders in this leaflet.

Contact person:
Petra Nilsson-Andersen
Senior Advisor
Mobile: +47 902 71 233



A Creative Economy Green Paper for the Nordic Region
The objective of this Green Paper is to open up a policy debate about the drivers of the Creative Industries in the Nordic region, and to understand the opportunities and challenges facing the sector. It is designed to help policy-makers from the local to national level recognize the potential – and seriousness – of the Creative Economy; and identify ways to support the Creative Industries in a more coordinated, connected way.

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Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe) invited Nordic stakeholders from the Creative Industries to a workshop on 22 November in Helsinki , themed "Rock the world – new event management and education!".

The workshop showed good practices of existing Nordic and European Creative Industries initiatives within entrepreneurial education and event management and provided an informal forum for questions and interesting debates.

All documents from this workshop may be downloaded here.

The Nordic Innovation Centre invites Creative Industries stakeholders (from industry and business, networks, research institutes and national and regional agencies) to contribute to and express their views on the development of a Creative Industries Green Paper for the Nordic Region. Please, find the questions for the online consultation below! The consultation will be available until August 1, 2007.

As a result of the second Call for proposal within the thematic area Creative Industries, the Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe) presents six new Nordic-Baltic projects. The projects aim at contributing to a professionalizing of the Creative Industries by emphasizing on the integration of the creative areas and business competencies, and by establishing awareness within the sector through enhancing the knowledge of the economic setting and business environment.

Culture plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge economy. The creative industries provide potential for economic growth and prosperity. It is a growing sector that continues to provide more jobs, and adds increasing value to products and services within the Nordic region. This potential is not yet sufficiently recognised.

We need to connect creative industries with other sectors in the economy in order to help creative entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into profitable business. Culture as a domain for expression, reflection and exchange is becoming the key context from which social and economic developments obtain their value. What is called for is a new agenda, which recognises the interplay between culture, innovation and the public domain in the knowledge economy.

Culture is business - And we are talking big business
Our six initial projects on the creative industries have now ended and presented their conclusions and recommendations in a final report.