Ideas2007: Creativity Beyond Borders
Conference Programme Plan

The Programme will be built around the three key success factors for a creative economy identified above:

The Creative Work-force

• Presentations by entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors.
• Education for creativity and entrepreneurship.
• Creative management and the creative corporation.

Business Infrastructure for Creativity

• Intellectual property: trading in IP, protecting IP.
• Governance of the creative economy.
• Networks, clusters, small enterprise development programmes.
  

The Culture of Creativity

• The creative milieu: quality of life, freedom to explore, to experiment, to communicate, to fail.
• Reputation, branding places, local and regional identity.
• The new role of arts and heritage: not a drain on the economy, but a source of value.