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No Smart Cities without Creative
Cities: the Creative Ring in Europe
Prof Dr Pieter Ballon, Director iMinds
Innovation Convention
11 March 2014, Brussels
What makes a city smart?
21/03/20142
Smart cities are creative cities
• Creative industries generate
3.5% of EU GDP
• Creative industries have 3% of
EU active population
• Micro-business and self-
employed dominate the
creative industries
• Big companies rely on creative
sector SMEs to discover new
opportunities and ventures
• But: Structural Problems in
terms of business models,
scalability, compatible Future
Internet toolsets
21/03/20144
Creative Cities need Creative Industries
Creative cities need to connect
Turning cities into creative labs
The Creative Ring: communities
On-site/Off-site
Suported by the “Creative Foursquare” – advanced community app
Powered by a Creative Agenda
The Creative Ring: tools
CI-oriented tools readily available: multimedia authoring and distribution,
sensor data processing, big data collection, smart city exploration,…
Repository of other tools with clear licensing conditions
The Creative Ring: spaces
Intra-project: Brussels, Kortrijk, Barcelona
Extra-project: Trento, Manchester, Québec City (for now)
The Creative Ring: co-creation
Enabling “Creative Conferencing”
Present in every hub
Powered by ultra-high speed FTTH connections and SOTA technology
FI-PPP Phase 3: CREATI-FI
Contact:
Pieter.Ballon@iminds.be

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No Smart Cities Without Creative Industries

  • 1. No Smart Cities without Creative Cities: the Creative Ring in Europe Prof Dr Pieter Ballon, Director iMinds Innovation Convention 11 March 2014, Brussels
  • 2. What makes a city smart? 21/03/20142
  • 3. Smart cities are creative cities
  • 4. • Creative industries generate 3.5% of EU GDP • Creative industries have 3% of EU active population • Micro-business and self- employed dominate the creative industries • Big companies rely on creative sector SMEs to discover new opportunities and ventures • But: Structural Problems in terms of business models, scalability, compatible Future Internet toolsets 21/03/20144 Creative Cities need Creative Industries
  • 5. Creative cities need to connect
  • 6. Turning cities into creative labs
  • 7. The Creative Ring: communities On-site/Off-site Suported by the “Creative Foursquare” – advanced community app Powered by a Creative Agenda
  • 8. The Creative Ring: tools CI-oriented tools readily available: multimedia authoring and distribution, sensor data processing, big data collection, smart city exploration,… Repository of other tools with clear licensing conditions
  • 9. The Creative Ring: spaces Intra-project: Brussels, Kortrijk, Barcelona Extra-project: Trento, Manchester, Québec City (for now)
  • 10. The Creative Ring: co-creation Enabling “Creative Conferencing” Present in every hub Powered by ultra-high speed FTTH connections and SOTA technology
  • 11. FI-PPP Phase 3: CREATI-FI

Notas del editor

  1. Songdo: billions investment
  2. estimated to account for more than 7 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product (UN, 2004). a key sector in the Europe of tomorrow (Zaboura, 2009) as knowledge and creativity are fast becoming powerful engines driving economic growthcontributing no less than 860 billion € to total European GDP (6.9%)representing no less than 14 million workers (figures for 2008)Symposium on Sustainable Creative Cities, 5/11, AntwerpEvidence of correlation creative industries/likeability of cities/attraction of general economic activity  Need for “Creative Class” (Florida)Importance of creative industries in holistic view on cities: interplay of culture and media with mobility, health, social services, environment – notion of cultural planningDanger of projectismvs sustainable activity
  3. Sources: The Economy of Culture in Europe (KEA report 2006)Mapping cultural and creative sectors in the EU and China (KEA report 2011)Essnet-culture. European Statistical System network on culture (2012)
  4. Creative industries characterized by a preponderance of small businesses and even individuals whom often operate on a local scale & do not have the means/opportunities to expand on a European levelCreative class needs to be connected internally and externally: city – region - EuropeLack of bridges to infrastructure and technology: often different worldsLack of reach beyond the local target/cluster