Cross Innovation as an impetus for economic development - The digital approach of Saxony-Anhalt

Cross Innovation as an impetus for economic development - The digital approach of Saxony-Anhalt’s regional innovation strategy in creative industries Focusing on the example of creative industries, contributors from the areas of policy, business and science will discuss the core challenges and opportunities of implementing regional innovation strategies in Saxony-Anhalt and the region Centre-Val de Loire. The aim is to identify the opportunities and challenges of smart specialization of European regions in the context of digitization. The region of Saxony-Anhalt can draw on significant innovation potential in a number of sectors and many high-performing small businesses and creative medium enterprises. This is reflected in the current Regional Innovation Strategy 2014 – 2020 (RIS), which seeks to support innovative businesses and to boost the regional capacity to innovate. These crosscutting issues identified in the RIS – creative industries, digital information and communication technologies – stimulate innovation in all sectors and are essential for the digitization of industry. Please register by 23 November 2017 by emailing sekretariat@lv-bruessel.stk.sachsen-anhalt.de