BCreative/How to Grow workshop
BCreative is a European Project within the Europe INNOVA initiative aimed at streamlining different innovation support mechanisms for SME’s in the Creative sector In Europe by creating closer links between knowledge creation, incubation, finance and clusters.
On September 23rd, 2010, BCreative will host a workshop during PICNIC 2010 (www.picnicnetwork.org) an Amsterdam based event that each year brings together creativity and innovation into one stage for three days through workshops, demonstrations, performances and presentations of some of the most creative and innovative initiatives from around the world.
BCreative will be present at the event and will host a workshop that will showcase perspectives from senior EC Officers, leading European stakeholders on design sector and BCreative partners to discuss the How to Grow online platform which is being developed by the BCreative project.
The workshop will give the first look at How to Grow, its functionalities and some of its most relevant tools and services. Afterwards, participants are invited to an open discussion about the platform, and its future possibilities in helping the European creative sector to become stronger and take a more central role within Europe’s economy.
BCreative will share with participants the latest developments on the four pilot Innovation Voucher Schemes that are being co-developed in four European regions of The Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Bulgaria with regional stakeholders focusing on creative industries and invite other European regions and countries that wish to implement their own Innovation Vouchers to share experiences and discuss potential partnerships with other regions that wish to implement Innovation Vouchers directed at the Creative Industries and wish to profit from BCreative partners’ experience gained during the ongoing co-development processes.
The workshop will also include a presentation of the Bank of Time, the first European scale bartering system aimed at Creative Industries, which will allow for the exchange of services between companies from across Europe as well as a crowd-funding scheme for the financing of new projects and business ideas, also be part of the How to Grow platform, along a number of other selected tools.
The How to Grow / BCreative workshop will take place on September 23rd 2010 in Amsterdam from 10h15 until 11h10 and will be followed by a session dedicated exclusively to Crowd-funding moderated by Jaspar Roos, Chief Inspiration Officer at ABN AMRO Dialogues Incubator which BCreative workshop attendants are invited to attend together with an audience of representatives from ABNO AMRO/Dialogues Incubator, venture capitalists and investors.
