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Research Projects

Members of imagine.. are currently, or have recently been, engaged in the following research projects:


Creative Encounters

CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS
The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries
Programme Director: Professor Brian Moeran, IKL
Industry
Sector
Fashion & Luxury
Film & Media
Place Branding,
Art & Culture
Sub-
Sectors
Trend Analysis Knowledge of Materials
Media Events Social Networks
City Images Cultural Attractions
Research Leader
Dr. Lise Skov
IKL
Prof. Jesper Strandgaard
IOA
Dr. Can-Seng Ooi
INT
Industry
Sector
Synergy
The Organization of Creativity and Innovation:
Ethnographic Methods, Creative Processes, Cultural Identity, Career Strategies, Events, Knowledge and Training
The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries
Creative Encounters seeks to explore the socio-economic organization of creative industries in a global context and focuses in particular on three sectors that are of some importance in Denmark: (a) Fashion and Luxury; (b) Film and Media; and (c) Place Branding, Art and Culture.
The aim of the research programme is to uncover the complex interplay between economic and cultural forces that characterises work practices, professions, organizations, and industries. To this end, Creative Encounters will engage in knowledge-producing partnerships with a broad range of business and educational organizations located both in Denmark and abroad.
Porcelænshaven 7
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tlf.: +45 3815 3194
Projektleder: Brian Moeran | Administrativ leder: Carsten Yssing
Creative Encounters' homepage

Art, Competence, and Competitiveness in the Danish experience economy

In relation to the Tuborg Foundation's 75th anniversary, the foundation along with Copenhagen Business School has initiated a research project to promote the Danish experience economy. The Tuborg Foundation has given a grant of DKK 6.2 million to the research project Art, Competence, and Competitiveness in the Danish experience economy. The project is the first of its kind in Denmark. It includes a mapping of the Danish experience economy, an exploration of barriers for growth and the development of future managerial practices. The research project is carried out in close relationship with the business environment. The research project is carried out by the CBS research cenre imagine.. Creative Industries Research. The research project has a span of three years.
Project period: 2005-2009
Co-partners: Tuborgfondet.
Website: www.experienceeconomy.dk
Project manager: Mark Lorenzen ml.ino@cbs.dk

CINEMA - Project

CINEMA – Organising and Managing Creative Enterprises’ is a research project concerned with the study of the film industry and the process of making films, studying how innovative, high framework filmmakers organise, manage and combine creativity with commercial interests.
The joint research project involves Jesper Strandgaard, Per Darmer, Chris Mathieu, Sara Malou Strandvad (PhD student) and Jesper Thomas Schlamovitz (PhD student).
Project period: 2005-2008
Co-partners: Det Danske Filminstitut, Danske Filmskole, Dansk Instruktør Forening, Nordisk Film, Zentropa, Nimbus Film, Reiner Grasten Film.
Website: www.cinemaproject.dk
Project manager: Jesper Strandgaard: js.ioa@cbs.dk

Capital Meets Creativity

The Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP) has together with Film i Väst, Lillehammer Kunnskapspark, Lillehammer University College, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), IceTec and Cimfunds entered into a collaboration regarding the development of an educational tool. This cooperation is part of a larger project called “Capital Meets Creativity”, which was initiated by the parties due to the realisation that the creative industries were facing a number of challenges, when it came to the ability to capitalise on the creative efforts and to attract investments to the same.
Project period: 2005-2006
Co-partners: Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP), Film i Väst, Lillehammer Kunnskapspark, Lillehammer University College, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), IceTec and Cimfunds.
For more information, please see PDF-file Capital Meets Creativity

The Capital's Creative capital

The project is a statistical analysis of the ability of the capital (Copenhagen's and Frederiksberg's municipality) to generate hi-tech economic growth on the basis of its urban qualities. The analysis encompasses:
  • A benchmarking of the capital’s urban qualities, its talented mass (highly skilled labour), and its employment in selected hi-tech industries, relative to selected other European metropoles (a ”Technology, Talent, and Tolerance-profile”)
  • An investigation of whether the capital’s ability to generate hi-tech growth depends upon its urban qualities
  • A comparision of how the capital may differ from other Danish cities in its dependency of high-tech growth upon urban qualities
  • A discussion of the implications for Danish urban and regional policies.
The project is carried out in collaboration with an European consortium in order to facilitate comparisions of the capital to selected European metropoles.
Project period: 2005-2006
Co-partners: Momsfondet; University of Lund, Sweden; University of Oslo, Norway; University of Toronto, Canada; STEP group, Oslo, Norway; University of Cardiff, Wales; University of Bonn, Germany; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Professor Markku Sotarauta, University of Tampere, Finland.
Website: Kreative Klasse
Project manager: Mark Lorenzen ml.ino@cbs.dk

Technology, Talent and Tolerance in European cities: A comparative analysis

The project is the Danish part of a major European study, which tests and expands upon Richard Florida’s thesis on the interrrelatedness of hi-tech based economic growth (”Technology”), location of highly-skilled labour (”Talent”) and particular urban qualities of diversity and openness (”Tolerance”). The study assesses the quality of place of major cities in seven European countries, and compares the quality of place of the cities across Europe.
Profiting from the unique availability of Danish labour market data, the Danish project also addresses a complementary research question of whether the Danish geographical distribution of technology, talent and tolerance differs from other European (as well as North American) national contexts. Are the largest Danish cities, such as the largest North American cities, relatively over-endowed with technology, talent and tolerance, or is the Danish pattern of economic activity and technology, talent and tolerance more evenly distributed among cities, suggesting a more hierarchical ranking of cities that may be ascribed to particular Danish regional distribution and welfare policies?
Project period: 2004-2006
Co-partners: Erhvervs- og Bolig Styrelsen; University of Lund, Sweden; University of Oslo, Norway; University of Toronto, Canada; STEP group, Oslo, Norway; University of Cardiff, Wales; University of Bonn, Germany; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Professor Markku Sotarauta, University of Tampere, Finland.
Website: Kreative Klasse
Project manager: Mark Lorenzen ml.ino@cbs.dk


Last updated by Thit Thorlacius 08/02/2011