ekip – European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform
Chris Speed, Nicola Osborne, Caitlin McDonald, Vikki JonesIn collaboration with:
Lund University, Creative Business Network, Beeld & Geluid, Delft University of Tehnology, Creativity Lab, MSCOMM, Politecnico de Milano, Technopolis Group, Idea Group, iCoolHunt, Gemeente Rotterdam, Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava, Creative Industry, Cité du design, New Moment network, Next Atlas, Humak University of Applied Sciences1 June 2022 – 1st December 2026
The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) have significant roles to play, not only in economic impacts but also as catalysts for change and evolution. They rely on innovation processes that require brainstorming, experimenting, and testing ideas within a multi-stakeholder ecosystem. Such ecosystems, composed of diverse organisations, institutions, businesses, researchers, and individuals, are crucial for nurturing new business concepts, attracting investments, and accelerating business growth.
The challenge is that good support mechanisms for these networks and open ecosystems are lacking. The ekip project, European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform, aims to change this” says coordinator Charlotte Lorentz Hjorth, Lund University.
An engine for innovation policy
With 17 partners contributing their specialised skills, ekip serves as a dynamic innovation policy platform, aiming to create policies that foster innovation ecosystems within the creative industries. Over 40 CCI networks and organisations across Europe feed this policy engine data on policy areas, which is subsequently analysed, prioritised, and processed in the Policy Lab. Here, new policies are crafted, iterated, and trialled in partner cities’ ecosystems. The goal is to channel 15 such processes through this policy platform. For scaling and implementing these policies, an Observatory manages the final step, utilising a model called LIEPT (Lund Innovation Ecosystems Portfolio Tracking) to monitor the policies’ impact on ecosystems.
New policies key to green transformation
ekip’s innovation policy platform can be instrumental in enabling new guidelines such as the digital product passports directive. Under the EU Green Deal, every product in the EU must be trackable and demonstrate its adherence to responsible and sustainable production standards. The ekip policy platform could propose methods for local innovation ecosystems to use these policies to foster the development of new textiles and clothing with ID tags that have relevant information to facilitate circular processes and recycling, thus advancing the green transformation within the EU.
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