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Development of creative industries
Description of the policy/measure
Based on the estonian entrepreneurship growth strategy 2014-2020 and previous experience of implementing measures for the development of cultural and creative industries (cci), the creative industries development measure was designed focusing on following aspects:supporting incubators, business accelerators and cci development centres;increasing the export capacity of cci enterprises;initiating joint development projects between cci and other sectors’ enterprises;developing the cci infrastructure and technological capacity;increasing awareness about creative economy and developing knowledge and skills.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
As a result the cci enterprises shall have increased income generated from different markets, other sectors involve cci in order to increase their value added, cci contributes more to the development of regions (employment, tourism, foreign investments) and there shall be bigger tax contribution generated by cci.previous measure implemented during 2009-2014 focused on awareness rising about cci and for development of cci support structures.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Total budget allocated for the period 2014-2020 is 20 million euros and the measure is financed from the european regional development fund.total budget of cci development measures implemented during 2009-2014Â was 8,1 million euros and measures were financed from european social fund and european regional development fund.
Evaluation of the policy/measure
Implementation of current and previous measures for supporting the development of cci have been constantly monitored in order to make relevant adaptions for achieving the results and impact of the measures. studies carried out before drafting the first measure for cci indicated that there was a low awareness about creative economy, poor co-operation within cultural and creative sectors and lack of appropriate support structures for developing cci.before drafting cci measures for the period 2014-2020 following aspects were highlighted: cci entreprises have low export capacity, there is a poor co-operation between cci and other sectors and the services of cci support structures must become more competitive and sustainable.