Presentation by Carlo Vuijlsteke of Flanders DC for the 7th ERRIN workshop in the European PLACES-project (http://www.openplaces.eu) in Ljubljana (Oct. 26, 2011)
6. Wanted: a new economic model
Finland?
Prosperity per capita
Flanders
Innovation driven
economy
China & India
Productivity driven
economy
Factor driven Strength= Strength= Strength=
economy Low cost Efficiency Creativity
7. Out of the 6.9 billion people on earth…
36%
live in China and India
8. By 2020…
< 10%
> 59%
will live in Europe will live in Asia
13. 3 Crucial questions
• “Can a computer do it faster?”
• “Can someone overseas do it cheaper?”
• “Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of
abundance?”
- Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
14. “Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource”
- Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class
15. One way of innovation…
Science/Technology New product
16. More ways of innovation…
Science
Technology
• New product
• New service
• New process
Creativity • New business model
Culture Society • New answers
Arts Market • …
35. CREATIVE TOOLS
Last November the Creative Tools project
was launched by Flanders DC together
with CIDA, Chamber of Commerce of
Terrassa and Creative Tampere.
This Leonardo da Vinci transfer of
innovation project wants to address two
subjects: How can you make the
entrepreneurial class more creative? How
can you make the creative class more
entrepreneurial?
36. EXPERIENCE BASEDthe toolbox
Goodies for
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Provide local and regional public sector
business consultants with knowledge of
and insight into creative business
approaches and the dynamics of
experience-based business development
Enable business consultants to support
and inspire local companies to bringing
creative approaches into the company,
its marketing and product development
processes.