Cross Innovation is Future! 

Cross Innovation is understood as a collaborative and cross-sectoral innovation process with the cultural and creative industries (CCI), businesses and other actors of the public or private spheres.

The creative industries act as innovation catalysts: they are skilled for an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Per definition, the CCIs’ core business is the development and implementation of new ideas, products or services. Their natural use of technology, their comprehension and awareness of trends as well as their generalist approach enable them to blend knowledge and experience from different fields of expertise and to inspire future-bound innovation.

Collaborating with the cultural and creative industries in innovation-processes means: change of perspective and an explosion of ideas, mixed with skillful future-sensitivity.

The Network is You (and You and You)!

Display your own Cross Innovation project or organisation, be inspired by other  good practices, or use the platform to connect and cooperate with other Cross Innovation intermediaries! Cross Innovation has many faces and even more experts: profit from the expertise of others in the field - find common aims and new strategies to conquer the New together.

Future is Networks!

The implementation of Open and Cross Innovation processes usually requires careful planning by public or private intermediaries. The Cross Innovation Networkaims at displaying the variety of bridge-builders for Cross Innovation processes across Europe. They range from public intermediaries, research institutes, study programs, experimental makerspaces, to private Cross Innovation agencies.

Browse through their projects and use cases to get inspired for Cross Innovation - you might find fellows who share your mission.