1. MFG Baden-Württemberg:
At the European Crossroads between ICT and
Creative Industries
iMinds 2009
Matthias Holzner
Head of Team / Project Development and International Affairs
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2. Creative Industries in Europe:
654 Billion Euros
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3. MFG: Public Innovation Agency
European Level
National Level
Second Life
Regional Level
DMMK Young
Professionals
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4. Cross fertilization: ICT and Creative Industries
TRIGGERING
Creative
ICT
Industries
INSPIRING
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5. CReATE: Roadmapping the Creative Industries
ANIMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Baden-
Württemberg
PUBLISHING VISUAL ARTS
Piemonte
…www.lets-CReATE.eu !
MUSIC
ADVERTISING
PRODUCT DESIGN
SERIOUS GAMES
West Midlands
INTERACTIVE DESIGN FILM
Rhône-Alpes
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6. Joint Research Agenda:
Visual and Interactive Experience
Tools of Productivity, Automated &
Intelligent Systems
Digital Distribution, Semantic Web,
Intellectual Property
Nomadic Use of Digital Content
User-Producer-Interaction in
Development
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7. VOICES:
Putting existing technologies in a new context
E-participation platform
Social Software Semantic Web Serious Games
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8. Foresight research
Dissertations
Workshops
Information Architecture
Virtual World
MFG-
Studies Analysis
Creative Labs Web 3.0
Real Time
Cluster Analysis
Master thesis
Research fellowships
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9. Boosting Collaboration
Vision: Pooling Europe's Innovation
and Economic Power in Creative Industries
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10. Targets of EICI
In green the goals already achieved, in yellow the
„work in progress“ activities and in red the next steps
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11. ...more than 30 members
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12. „If you do not design the future
someone or something else
will design it for you.“
Dr. Edward de Bono,
Ambassador of EYCI
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