Within the Regions of Western Greece, Ionian Islands, Epirus from Greece and Apuglia from Italy, there are huge cultural and natural assets that can contribute to boost their economic growth and improve people’s quality of life. Cross-border economic development has many facets: corporate partnerships, exports or provision of services on the other side of the border, bi-location, subcontracting relationships, inter-clustering, etc.
“Creative Industries (CI)” are among the most dynamic sectors in the world economy providing new opportunities for developing countries to leapfrog into emerging high-growth areas of the world economy. The creative industries – which include advertising, marketing, architecture, arts and crafts, design, fashion, film, video, photography, music, performing arts, publishing, research ΚΑΙamp; development, software, computer games, electronic publishing, and TV/radio – are the lifeblood of the creative economy. They are also considered an important source of commercial and cultural value.
Therefore “Creative Industries” which encompasses all enterprises that have as their core business the ability to create, was deployed by this project as the intellectual and social process for the production of new ideas, concepts, plans, links, processes and clusters.