Supporting Growthin

Lebanon’s Creative Economy

Intelligent financeAvailable skills

Flexible workspaceDigital infrastructure

Social clusters

“…growth is not a strategy, it is a tactic, and if growth becomes a strategy I don’t think it is an enduring one. I think growth covers up mistakes”

Howard Schultz, Founder and CEO of

Starbucks

“…diversity is more important than ability”

Staying Ahead

“… the longer the distance between the problem solver’s field of expertise and the problem, the more likely they were to solve it.”

Harvard Business School report of 2008

“demand needs to be demanding”

Staying Ahead

“Enable customers to collaborate with you in creating, distributing, marketing and supporting products”

Jeff Jarvis ‘What Would Google Do’

“We should use the massive power of public procurement to encourage more innovative solutions from suppliers”

The Cox Review of Innovation in

Business 2005

“An efficient market enhances the sharing and re-use of information, whether a transaction takes place or not”

John Howkins “Creative Ecologies”

“Unlike traditional models which rely on large commitments from one or two institutions, crowd funding is based on raising smaller sums from lots of people who may be linked by social networks or shared interests”

Trampoline Systems website

“…the creative industries are not only an important economic factor in themselves, they also fuel the economy with knowledge and dynamism”

European Commission DG for Enterprise & Industry

2010

UNCTAD Creative Economy Report 2008

“The interface between creativity, culture, economics and technology as expressed in the ability to create and circulate intellectual capital, has the potential to generate income, jobs, and export earnings while at the same time promoting social inclusion, cultural diversity and human development. This is what the emerging creative economy has already begun to do.”