As the UN acknowledges by declaring 2021 the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, the cultural and creative industries hold the potential to create great sustainable change. At the same time, the creative industries are in fact very good business!
Nevertheless, entrepreneurs from the creative industries worldwide face difficulties in accessing finance and this is one of the main obstacles for their growth. Even within the world of impact investing, the creative economy is underrepresented.
In this talk we bring investors, entrepreneurs, and experts together for an open discussion on how to stimulate new ways of thinking how to fund the creative economy and inspire for action to achieving a sustainable economic growth.