Business kit for Creative start-ups in IPR, Venture capital and Entrepreneurial skills
Creative industries are recognised as possessing significant economic potential and have therefore increasingly become the subject of public and policy discussions throughout Europe. Their economic potential, however, is not yet fully exploited due to issues such as fragmentation of the sector leading to shortcomings in knowledge transfer and cooperation; lack of entrepreneurial skills of creative individuals; limited access to capital owing to the nature of creative businesses, limited knowledge on how to protect their intellectual property, and so forth.
The main objective of B Creative is to streamline different innovation support mechanisms for SMEs in the creative sector in Europe in order to establish closer links between knowledge creation, incubation, finance and clusters. By removing or reducing the barriers described above, B Creative encourages SMEs to better exploit their research results and facilitate the search for investors and potential business partners. The project sets up a European online platform for creative businesses establishing a European network of relevant stakeholders, bringing them together and providing creative businesses with a toolkit that would help them access venture capital, access entrepreneurial skills and allow them to exchange information on intellectual property, legal issues, and other barriers that KIS enterprises come across.
Specific objectives:
B Creative develops the following main deliverables:
- Online platform for networking & knowledge transfer;
- Toolkit” for creative SMEs;
- Yearly business plan competition;
- Quality label for creative KIS-ventures;
- System for granting innovation vouchers.
In order to:
- Access venture capital;
- Advance entrepreneurial skills;
- Exchange information on latest trends and particular issues such as intellectual property rights in the creative sector as well as other issues of specific interest for creative businesses;
- Reach out to important stakeholders.
