GETTING TO KNOW
ACTING AND DEVELOPING IN
CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Cultural and Creative Industries
The concept of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) is s vast and diverse and encompasses a set of activities that have in common the use of creativity, cultural knowledge and intellectual property as resources to produce goods and services with social and cultural significance, such as the performing arts and visual arts, cultural heritage, handicrafts and jewelery, cinema, photography, radio, television, music, publishing, educational and entertainment software (markedly video games) and other software and IT services, the new Media, architecture, Design, fashion and advertising (DGAE; ESTRATÉGIA NACIONAL DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E INOVAÇÃO PARA UMA ESPECIALIZAÇÃO INTELIGENTE 2014-2020)
Creia.Lab
The Creative Industries Accelerator Lab (CreIA.Lab) is a place that aims to promote the diagnosis, reflexion, mentoring and experimentation directed at students, teachers researchers and entrepreneurs within the Cultural and Creative domain.
It was set up within the context of the CIC. Digital Porto research unit (Centro de Investigação em Comunicação, Informação e Cultura Digital - Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture), in partnership with the Masters in Communication and Management of Creative Industries from the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto.
It seeks to promote a trans and cross-curricular approach that potentiates an active participation in the transferring of knowledge University/Community, the use of innovative technologies and partnerships with entrepreneurs and other agents interested in the field.
Values
- Rigor (integrity, impartiality and scientific and technical competence)
- Openness (co-creation and reuse of information)
- Transparency (contributing to easy access to relevant public information)
- Citizenship (providing and guaranteeing access to a participatory citizenship)
- Memory (gathering and preserving information about the sector, the actors and their activities)
Objectives
- Add, produce and share credible and current information / knowledge, in one point, easy and intuitive access
- Educate
- Research
- Experiment
The National Strategy for Research and Innovation for an Intelligent Specialization 2014-2020 presents these industries as an area that has kept up with the rest of the economic activity, employing mainly younger and better qualified people, but which is concentrated in the regions of Lisbon and Porto, with 50% of establishments located in Greater Lisbon, Greater Porto and the Setúbal Peninsula. The analysis of the regional specialization also shows the existing asymmetries and the weak situation in industrial regions such as Ave, Cávado, Tâmega, Entre Douro and Vouga, Baixo Vouga and Pinhal Litoral, where the sector should be an important differentiating factor of the products and generator of competitiveness.
The CCI are not yet presented as a structured economic sector, characterized by the diversity and dispersion of information sources and analysis structures.
Nevertheless, the field is recognises as a:
- Strategic factor of competitiveness
- Generator of employment and richness
- Means of reinforcing citizenship
- Lever of social and territorial cohesion
- Vehicle of international affirmation of the communities.
CreIA.Lab is therefore justified as is the priority to integrate into its components the Observatory of Creative Industries in Portugal (ObCreI.pt), a social technological structure of information and knowledge management that focuses on this reality / problematic, integrating information and instruments that enable the production and the dynamic and interactive sharing of knowledge about it.
