Seventh Symposium of the International Association of Cultural and Creative Industries (IACCI)

First international Research Symposium on Culture and Creative Industries in Berlin

23th October 2014 / Berlin

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

 

8.30                 Registration and Coffee

9.30 – 10.00    Welcome and Opening Ceremony

Michael SOENDERMANN, Director Office for Culture Industries Research (KWF) Cologne/Berlin, Germany

Patricia WALKER ALLMOND, Non Executive President of the International Association of Cultural

and Creative Industries (IACCI), Beijing/Hong Kong, China

N.N., German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Berlin, Germany

Moderator:

Gesa BIRNKRAUT, Professor University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck, Germany

 

10.00 – 11.30  Theme 1:Is the idea of creativity the most important concept of the 21st century? Are the jobs of the future to be found in the cultural and creative sector?

Speakers:

Françoise BENHAMOU, Professor Centre of Economy of Sorbonne Sorbonne Paris, France

Dimiter GANTCHEV, Acting Director, Culture and Creative Sectors, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Anthony, KRAUSE, Chief Policy and Research Unit in the Section of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, UNESCO Paris, France

Justin O’CONNOR, Professor Communications and Cultural Economy at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Jian-gang ZHANG, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China

Comments:

Albrecht GOESCHEL, Consultant, former Project Manager at German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Michael HUTT