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Unlocking Innovation and Growth in Berlin
Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research
Division Communication, Media, Creative Industries | Projekt Zukunft
October 2014
Berlin - City Overview - General
Berlin is a city of culture, media and science
One of the most visited tourist destinations in Europe
Berlin is home to highly ranked universities, research institutes,
sporting events, orchestras and museums
Berlin is Germany's largest city
Area of 892 qm/ embedded in European plains/ 33% nature
Berlin is a young, international and religious diverse city
Berlin 3,4 million/ Metropolitan Area 5 million inhabitants
> 790,000 people (23%) under 25 years
15% non-German citizens from 195 countries
50% Protestants/ Catholics/ Muslims/ Jewish/ Buddhists
Berlin - City Overview – Economic
Fundamental structural change since 1989 (fall of the wall)
Primarily based on service sector, significant industries include IT/ creative industries, pharma, biotechnology, optoelectronics, traffic engineering and renewable energy
Growth of service & creative industries has gone hand in hand with decline in industry and construction
But: more than 100,000 new jobs in the last ten years
Nominal GDP 85 billion €/ GDP per Capita up to 32,500 €
Small and medium-size companies are key to Berlin’s economy
Around 40,000 new businesses per year
About us
Projekt Zukunft
Initiative/ Part of Economic Department since 1997
Managing the cluster „IKT Media Creative Industries“,
largest cluster in Berlin
To optimize growth conditions and to stimulate innovation
Connecting technology and content creation
Broad range of services
Developing and implementing policies
2.5M € budget for infrastructural projects yearly with influence on20M € yearly
www.projektzukunft.berlin.de
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Cluster Management Activities
Information/
Services
Headquarter
Newsletter
Mediation
Website
Sectorspecific
Studies
Networking
Workshops
Roundtables
Conferences
Joint fair
presentations
Matchmaking
Weeks
Strategies and
Cluster
Management
Strategy IT
Strategy
Creative
Industries
Financal Support
Loans/ Garantees
GRW
Foreign Trade
Program
Microloans
VC Fonds
Coaching for
Creative Enterprises
Competitions
Serious Games
Visual Effects
eBooks
European and international
Cooperations
Crowdfunding/
crowdinvesting
Unesco
Creative Cities Network
Open Cities
Cross Innovation
European Creative
Industries Alliance
Innovation Voucher
Digital/ Innovation
Agenda
Cluster Management`s Fields of Action
- Establishing networks/ participating in international networks
- Marketing activities/ awareness
- Joint strategy building process together with companies
- Adapting/ developing financing instruments
- Establishing international relevant platforms in Berlin
- Opening new markets/ supporting distribution activities
- Supporting innovation hubs
- Focusing on technological trends/ new business opportunities
- Fostering cross innovation/ cross sectoral collaboration
Cluster Structure/ Collaboration
Business Development &
Investor Support
SENATEChamber of Industry &
Commerce
Steering Committee
IT/ Creative Industries
ClusterManagement Projekt Zukunft
Publish Ass. Music Commission Create Berlin SIBBGames BITKOMmedia. net
33.972 Companies and 255.300 Jobs
Growing Figures/ Share of Berlin´s Economy
20,300 (2000) 34,000 companies (2012)/ 24% of economy
190,000 (2000) 255,000 jobs (2013)/ 18%
16,8 bn € (2000) 28,2 bn € turnover (2012)/ 16%
Growth since 2000
Companies + 67%/ + 14.000 companies
Jobs + 34%/ + 65.000 jobs
Turnover + 68%/ + 11,4 bn €
=> Strong economic upgrowth even during crisis (2008)
=> Highest CI contribution to regional economy in Germany
Cluster „ICT, Media, Creative Industries“
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Cluster Figures in Detail/ Definition
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Cluster 2012/ 2013Companies
2012
Turnover in
TEUR 2012Jobs 2013
Music 1.265 1.021.626 12.740
Book Market 1.758 821.300 8.681
Art Market 2.555 552.552 6.205
Film Market 1.896 802.985 10.631
Broadcasting 1.679 1.867.180 26.024
Performing Arts 1.664 504.506 13.249
Design Market 4.246 801.544 12.349
Architecture 2.680 452.763 8.939
Publishing Market 1.894 2.952.866 11.370
Advertising Market 1.061 681.709 11.265
Software/ Games 3.957 2.665.025 47.087
ICT 2.929 8.022.875 27.910
Diverse CI/IT 6.388 7.121.003 58.866
All 33.972 28.267.934 255.316
Definition of CCI in Germany: Culture and creative industries comprise of all
cultural and creative enterprises that are mainly market-oriented and deal
with the creation, production, distribution and/or dissemination through the
media of creative goods and services.
Milestones in Berlin´s Policy
1997 1999 2000 2002 2005 2008 2009 2010 2012
IT/ Digital
Initiative
Projekt
Zukunft
Mobile Broad-
band Initiative
New Media/
IT Dialogue
IT Security IT
Strategy
Internet
of Services
Open Source/
Open IT
Serious
Games
Competition
Broadband
Strategy
EU Projects
REDICT,
EU Digital Think
Tank,
Open Cities
Open Data
InitiativeBronze Label
for Cluster
Management
IT Marketing
Campaign
„Iog in Berlin“
Fairs: dmexco:
SXSW, Dublin
Summit, Mobile
World Congress
2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014
Creative Industries
Creative Industries Report
Creative Industries
Strategy
Networks in
Music, design, Games…
Certification
Unesco City
of Design
Foreign Trade
Supporting
Program
PlatformCreative-city-Berlin
Fashion, Design Music, Games, Web Week
VC Fonds Creative Industries
KCC Coaching Center
more than
20 thematic
competitions
Strategy
for Design
Sector
Design
Transfer
Bonus
Programm
EU Projects
Cross
Innovation/
ECIA
Study
regarding
Innovation
Labs
Strategy
for Digital
Economy
www.crowdfunding
-berlin.com-
Platform
Focus on
Digitisation (Smart
Cities/ Industry 4.0
(etc.) and Cross
Innovation
Role of Government
- Optimizing growth conditions for companies of the cluster
- Strong role because PZ is cluster manager and part of ministry
- Enabling and fostering cross sectorial collaboration and
collaboration between science, economy and administration to
stimulate innovation
- Policy instruments: funding/ financing, coaching, marketing,
presentations abroad, incubator/ spaces, cross sectoral projects,
calls/ competitions
- Joint strategy building process together with companies
Role of Private Sector
- Active involvement of stakeholders and networks
- As advisors in boards and expert roundtables giving
recommendations what should be modified and how
- As beneficiaries of supporting programs and network projects
- Joint strategy building process
Creative City Berlin
Website covering all fields of cultural & creative industries in Berlin
For locals and foreigners
Information about funding, networks, fairs, events, jobs ..
Coming: project exchange/ jobs/ more interactive tools
150.000 visitors monthly
www.creative-city-berlin.de/
Information & Service
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Creative Coaching Center
Subsidized coaching for start-ups
and established enterprises of CI
Individual mentoring by professional
coaches with CI experience
Seminar + workshop programs
100 counselees per year
Funded by ERDF/ state funds
Since 2008
www.tcc-berlin.de
Professionalization
www.projektzukunft.berlin.de
Financing
Business Plan
Organisation
Marketing & Sales
Strategy
Controlling
Market Analysis
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Opening up New Markets
Subsidies for joint presentations at trade fairs (economic focus)
More than 100 presentations since 2006/ up to now 1M € per year- Design – Milan/ Asia/ America
- Fashion – Paris/ NY
- Art – Basel/ Miami
- Film – Los Angeles/ Cannes
- Music – SXSW Austin
- Software – CeBIT/ dmexco/ etc.
Evaluation/ new pilot actions
www.ibb.de/nme
Internalization
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Access to Finance
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VC Fonds Creative Industries
To strengthen equity of creative
enterprises and finance innovative
products & services
Investment: max. 1.5M € per round,
minority share of 15% (max. 49%),
private 50% co-investment needed
Results: 400 evaluated, 100 financed
ERDF/ state: 30M € volume/ + 40M €
2008 – 2013/ continued til 2020
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Berlin – Made to Create Calls
Since 2009, 20 thematic calls
Serious Games, Apps4Berlin, e-books, design & healthcare, fashion, webradio, geoapps, etc.
Topics like “Sharing Economy”, “Cross Innovation” coming in 2014/ 2015
innovation/ talent support
Coaching, prize money, PR support
More than 1.500 applications, more than 100 winners, more than 550.000 €
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Access to Finance/ Talent Support
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Innovation support: Cross Sectoral
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Hybrid Platform Berlin
Platform for interdisciplinary cooperation
Arts University + Tech University + research + industry
Combining arts, design, technology, engineering
Developing projects and formats for tomorrows innovation
Co-financed by ERDF, since 2010
www.navi-bc.de/
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Innovation Support: Vouchers
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Design Transfer Bonus
Innovation Vouchers up to 15.000 €
Transfer of know-how between design
and traditional SMEs
Funded = services such as consulting,
project management and design for
modified products and services
Healthcare/ Mobility/ Optic
Since 2011
250 applications/ 100 financed
www.designtransferbonus.de
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1 of 50 co-working spaces in Berlin with 120 desks to rent, incl. facilities
Flexible rates, reasonable costs
Open to all CI sectors platform for interdisciplinary exchange
Excellent for start up companies
“Open Design” workshops/ Fab-Labs
Around 100 innovation labs
Innovation support: Incubators
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Berlin as city with highest density of co-working spaces and innovation labs in Europe
Access to Finance
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Crowdfunding Berlin Platform
Aggregator: collecting all
crowdfunding/ crowdinvesting projects
of Berlin based entrepreneurs from
German and worldwide platforms
Starting February 2014:
Successful finished: 100/ 18
Just started: 40/ 8
Fundament for market research,
additional workshops & competitions
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Smart Data, Big Data, Geo Data, Data Analytics
Open IT (Open Data/ Open Standard)
Internet of Things/ Cloud Computing/ Interoperability
Mobile Solutions
Digital Media (VoD, realtime advertising, streaming music, digital
newspaper, MMOGs, multichannel distribution, etc.)
Design & Usability
Smart City/ Industry 4.0/ e-Health/ e-Mobility/ Smart Energy
IT- Security
E-Government
Digital Infrastructure
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Topics
- How to integrate 34.000 companies/12 sectors in strategybuilding?
- Linking technology, content creation with business/ societal needs
- More intersectoral collaboration needed (resources?)
- No clear structure between ministry (steering) and supportingagencies – based on political decisions
- Strong focus on innovation/ digitisation/ developing a Digital Agenda for Berlin
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Challenges
Senate for Economics, Technology and Research
Division ICT, Media, Creative Industries
Tanja Muehlhans
tanja.muehlhans@senwtf.berlin.de
www.projektzukunft.berlin.de
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