17/12/09/ • Tallinn, Berlin, Amsterdam

Research team has finished the research on creative industries

A comparative analysis of the urban policies needed to strengthen the development of the creative economy has been undertaken during the year 2009 in the 11 cities involved in the project. The results of the research will form a basis for partner-to-partner study visits to be carried out in 2010 by the cities involved in the project. The research report is being finalized and will be publically available in the beginning of 2010 and distributed to policy makers and other stakeholders to help developing CI strategies in the cities.

The research was carried out in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Helsinki, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius, and Warsaw. It was structured according to the five themes addressed in the whole CREATIVE METROPOLES project:

General architecture of public support for creative industries; Enhancing business capacity and internationalization of creative industries; Developing urban space and creative city districts; Financing of creative Industries; Demand for CI products and services.

In order to analyze the existent situation with the public support for creative industries, each partner city had to fill in a special template that consisted of a qualitative, structured and semi-open questionnaire. In the template, the cities had to describe: (A) the general architecture of public support and concrete measures of supporting CI; (B) 5 best practices in supporting CI; (C) the approach behind the strategic choices (sectors, clusters, etc.) in their city.

The research team for CREATIVE METROPOLES project is composed of 8 team members from 3 different cities – Robert Marijnissen from Amsterdam, Creative Cities Amsterdam Area; Dieter Haselbach from Berlin, Infora Consulting Group Culturplan; Silja Lassur, Külliki Tafel-Viia and Erik Terk from Tallinn University, Estonian Institute for Futures Studies; Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn University, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Aili Vahtrapuu from Tallinn University, Institute for Fine Arts, and Indrek Ibrus from Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School.