Our Cultural Innovation village

All regions have their own unique culture. This creates a business opportunity that can be used to considerable economic advantage. We will discuss how businesses can identify opportunities arising from culture to derive their own USP. We will explore:

• What innovative approaches can be taken by the BICs towards ensuring that cultural activities can be made sustainable?
• Can traditional businesses adopt cultural innovation processes to drive forward their businesses?
• Provision of case studies of innovative processes adopted by BICs in their support of Cultural businesses and successful business exemplars. Examples of Cultural-Traditional business crossover models.

Village Concept:  

EBN Congress 2013 will be networking experience. We have designed the Congress to create knowledge transfer (the sessions and workshops) and knowledge exchange (networking). 

In order to increase your networking opportunities with participants of similar interests, when you register, you will be able to choose your area of interest from Digital Innovation, Social Innovation and Cultural Innovation. When we have networking breaks during the conference, special areas - Innovation Villages have been created for you to meet with people of similar interests. Our Villages will be the meeting place for like-minded people. Here you can chat, network, develop friendships and create collaborations. Around each Village – Digital Village, Social Village and Cultural Village - will be exhibitions from businesses and organisations that operate in that particular field of expertise. There will be the opportunity for impromptu presentations, Pecha Kucha sessions and informal project planning sessions. There may even be strange creatures lurking there!