Schleswig-Holstein

Number of CCI support organizations: 23
Global creativity index – GCI, country level: 0.837 (2015)
Regional Entrepreneurship Development Index – REDI: 49.8 (2017)

Table 1 gives an overview of employment in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein and revenue of the CCI industries. There is no data available on exports.

Table 1

_{* companies and self-employed in the core segment (2015) + companies in the mini segment (2012)
** Revenue 2012 core segment + 2015 mini segment}

Different sectors of the CCI are developing differently as is indicated by the number of employees in the sub-sectors. The music industry, the architecture sector and as shown especially the software/games industry are growing significantly in terms of employees. They are growing stronger than the overall economy. Yet, the number of jobs in advertising, the film business, the press market as well as in design is falling. Especially for design it is true that the number of employees has fallen, yet the number of self-employed has increased. In the core segment since 2009 the rate of self-employed has increased by 29 percent, in the mini segment by 14 percent.

There is support for taking part in international fairs through Gründerviertel, an initiative by Technikzentrum Lübeck. This is mainly directed a tech-oriented start-ups. The government of Schleswig-Holstein has opened together with several partners an office in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley to establish cooperation between Schleswig-Holstein’s tech firms and international players. #kreativkiel supports business cooperation between companies from the city of Kiel with Denmark, especially the cities of Aarhus and Kolding, and Sweden.

21.600 people work in the core market in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein, that is about 56% of all employed in the CCI.

18 % of the employed in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein are self-employed/companies in the mini segment. 24 % percent of the employed belong to the mini segment as well. Thus 42% of all employed in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein belong to the mini segment. The number for Germany overall is even 55%. Therefore, in Germany as well in Schleswig-Holstein the CCI is rather fragmented. Overall 13,097 of those employed in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein are self-employed or owner of a company. They are almost evenly split in the core segment and the mini segment.

Overall, 35% of the people working in the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein are self-employed/companies compared to 33% for the whole of Germany. The average revenue of a CCI company in Schleswig-Holstein is 340,000 EUR compared to 607,000 EUR in Germany.

The CCI support system appears to be rather fragment with a focus on the digital industries. Yet there are many support and funding possibilities on the municipal, regional and national level. One initiative which has not been part of chapter is the strategic focus of the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, to establish the city as creative city. The city is funding and supporting projects with at least three partners that focus for example on innovative projects of sustainability, demographic change or inclusive shaping of communities or creative development of the city. The project is all about shaping urban living and not so much on business development.

CCI development & support strategies (national, regional, municipal, European):

European initiatives/programs: Interreg, Interreg Policy Area Culture, Creative Europe.

Governmental level supporting institutions: German Federal Cultural Foundation, German Motion Picture Fund, Initiative Musik gGmbH, myPlan/EXIST, Northern Germany Innovation Office in San Francisco, Kulturförderung der Landeshauptstadt Kiel (Culture Funding of the City of Kiel), Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland (Cultural and Creative Pilots Germany)

CCI eco-systems (national, regional), please describe each listed entity also shortly by its function and/or activities: DiWiSH, Muthesius Transferpark, Starterkitchen Incubator, Gründerviertel (City of Lübeck), Technikzentrum Lübeck, Nordkolleg GmbH, Ars Baltica, Kreativstammtisch Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein Government Plug ‘n Play, Waterkant Festival, #kreativkiel, Schleswig-Holstein StartUp Camp, Baltic Business Angels Schleswig-Holstein e.V., Film Funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Förderlotsen IB.SH – see Table 3 for descriptions and projects

Access to finance: There are some possibilities for founders and start-ups to receive counseling, first-year financial support as well as infrastructure like incubators, festivals and workshops. Most of them are general business support infrastructure not specifically designed for the CCI.

Few funding offers are directed specifically at the CCI; most offers concerning funding are directed at digital start-ups and company founders in general.

On the one hand there is funding for cultural, non-commercial events on the other there is a lot of support or funding for digital start-ups; CCI companies or founders that do not focus solely on digital approaches like designers, architecture, film, foto, book and music market there seems to be a lack of support.

Only a few and rather limited support activities are aimed at internationalization.

1. _{Report on the CCI in Schleswig-Holstein (2017):}
2. _{https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/Fachinhalte/K/kreativwirtschaft/Downloads/daten_Kreativwirtschaft_SH2017.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1}
3. _{Report on the CCI for Germany (2018):}
4. _{https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Publikationen/Wirtschaft/monitoringbericht-kultur-und-kreativwirtschaft-2018-kurzfassung.html}
5. _{Global Creativity Index: http://chartsbin.com/view/41109}
6. _{The Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index: Structure, Data, Methodology and Policy Applications / László Szerb, Zsófia Vörös, Éva Komlósi, Zoltan J. Acs, Balázs Páger, Gábor Rapp.: http://www.projectfires.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FINAL-D4.4-Template-Report-Pan-European-database_V4.4.pdf}