Flanders DC

Flanders District of Creativity or Flanders DC is a non-profit organization founded by the Flemish government, on 7 May 2004, to make the Flemish economy more competitive through creativity, entrepreneurship, and further internationalization.

Goals

• Research: analysis of the role of creativity in the economic growth of a region, and how companies and organisations can get to more creativity and innovation (Flanders Knowledge center in collaboration with Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Antwerp Management School).
• Creating awareness: stimulating policy makers, the general public, companies and schools to tap into their creative potential.
• Internationalization of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship through collaboration with 13 other Districts of Creativity (DC). Besides Flanders, these DCs are Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalunya (Spain), Central Denmark (Denmark), Karnataka (India), Lombardy (Italy), Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France), Oklahoma (US), Qingdao (China), Rhône-Alpes (France), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Scotland (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China), and Tampere (Finland).

Projects/events

• Creativity World Forum (The DC's meet @ the CWF)
• GPS brainstorming kit (idea generation tool)
• Flanders DC Fellows (50 entrepreneurs, managers testify on creative entrepreneurship in schools)
• De Bedenkers (TV Show in collaboration with Flanders DC)
• SOS Idee (free first-aid service for people with an idea or invention)
• The Future Summit (Event on trends)
• ...

See also

• Science and technology in Flanders
• Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology
• Flanders Investment and Trade
• Agoria
• SIRRIS, knowledge centre for the technology industry

External links

• Flanders DC (Flanders DC website and creativity portal)
• Creativity World Forum
• De Bedenkers
• The Future Summit
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