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Innovation ecosystems are built by people.

This is where you meet them.

ekip works on innovation policy for the cultural and creative industries. Policy does not implement itself. It moves through people — the civil servant redrafting a funding call, the cluster manager holding a dozen organisations together, the artist working inside a research lab, the official trying to explain a creative economy to a finance ministry.

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City Prototyping is at the center of it all, cities across Europe tested new approaches to innovation for the CCIs. The ekip Academy brings ecosystem builders together to learn from those cases, and from each other.

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Explore how creatives work today, and how new roles are taking shape for tomorrow.

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PRIMARY FEATURE

CITY PROTOTYPING

What happens when the Cultural and Creative Industries help shape a city? 

ekip worked with partner cities across Europe, city by city, to prototype new approaches to innovation with and for CCIs.

THE NEW EDITION

THE JOBS TAKING SHAPE

See how change across Europe’s creative industries is reshaping work, creating new roles, practices and skills.

Innovation ecosystems keep inventing roles that did not exist five years ago and do not yet have job descriptions. This series describes the emerging work — the translating, brokering and holding-together that ecosystems turn out to depend on — and what it will take to support it.

Jobs of the Future

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