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Introduction to the Center and its goals
The University of Bologna's Research Center on Cultural and Creative Industries aims to strengthen the regional production system and economic development of the ICC sector by integrating research, digital and enabling technologies, creativity, and culture.
A series of interdisciplinary pilot projects have already been launched with the aim of developing new technological solutions to support innovation in the cultural and creative industries, with particular reference to audiovisual activities (from music to the performing and screen arts) and digital applications to culture. to explore transdisciplinary creative practices and associated creative and experimental methods capable of generating new knowledge, new innovative production opportunities, and business ideas to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the complex ICC sector. In this ecosystem, C.R.I.C.C. becomes a true hub of hybridization and cross-fertilization between Research & Development laboratories and local companies, with the aim of strengthening the open innovation model and smart specialization in our region.
In addition, the Research Center has signed agreements with the main Open Laboratories in the Emilia-Romagna region—spaces for project collaboration between citizens, associations, companies, research centers, and institutions—in order to activate a system of initiatives and events to be replicated in each Open Laboratory, to experiment with practices based on co-design activities.