Conference “Financing Creativity” Athens, 20-21/02/2014 Concept Outline The Conference «Financing Creativity», organized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and cofounded by the European Commission, during the Greek Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2014, aims to inform on the growing importance of the creative economy and survey existing tools and expertise that facilitate access to finance. It also examines the right conditions that must exist for creativity and innovation to flourish within a culture of entrepreneurship and focuses on the quest of efficient strategies leading to social and economic prosperity. The Conference addresses to central and local government agencies, banks, chambers of commerce and professional organizations, universities, venture capital companies and creative industries, artists and culture professionals, cultural institutions, NGO’s, etc. «Internationalization and Cultural Exports: Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Era» The importance of export markets is evident in many of the cultural and creative industries strategic documents and studies. In this session presentations will be centered around ways to generate export revenues and create jobs to overcome the pitfalls of a limited home market and public and private initiatives that endeavor to support export initiatives for CCI’s. Digital opportunities can be a facilitator of the internationalization process, leveling the playfield and creating a number of new opportunities for smaller industries. The session also examines the ways in which innovation and ICT technologie

1. INTERNATIONALIZATION AND EXPORT
Opportunities und Challenges in the Digital Era
Klaus Haasis
CEO Combine Innovation GmbH Stuttgart - Rome
Coach @diversity European Idea Competition
Athens, 2014 February 25
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2. That's me .....
Klaus Haasis
Creative Coach &
Business Angel
Combine Innovation GmbH, Stuttgart
18 years public-private
Innovation Management
for Creative Industries & ICT
CEO MFG PUBLIC INNOVATION AGENY
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4. INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
7 Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Era
4. Aims of supporting cultural
and creative industries
-> progress economic,
ecological, social,
democratic, wellbeing?
Diversity as a factor.
1. "export markets"
for cultural and creative
industries?
2. Profit or Value Creation?
e.g. in the European Film
Sector
-> Public Funding and Private
Investments as Allies?
5. Innovation and ICT
technologies
-> understanding open source
6. Public administration dilemma
in supporting innovation
3. Sectors for export and
internationalisation
-> Understanding value
chains
7. Personcentered Coaching
-> Dealing with Uncertainty
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5. Value Chains in the Creative Industries

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9. Ensuring diversity and inclusion is a process
that requires leveraging differences to be
more creative. Referring to “The Inclusion
Breakthrough” by Frederick A. Miller and
Judith H. Katz,
“Inclusive organizational cultures leverage
diversity by creating an environment with a
broader bandwidth of acceptable styles of
behavior and appearance, thereby
encouraging a greater range of
available paths to success.”
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15. INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
7 Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Era
4. Aims of supporting cultural
and creative industries
-> progress economic,
ecological, social,
democratic, wellbeing?
Diversity as a factor.
1. "export markets"
for cultural and creative
industries?
2. Profit or Value Creation?
e.g. in the European Film
Sector
-> Public Funding and Private
Investments as Allies?
5. Innovation and ICT
technologies
-> understanding open source
6. Public administration dilemma
in supporting innovation
3. Sectors for export and
internationalisation
-> Understanding value
chains
7. Personcentered Coaching
-> Dealing with Uncertainty
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16. Combine Innovation!
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