The goal is to create new national and international success stories

According to the city strategy, Tampere is an international growth centre for versatile services, know-how, and creativity. The successful business activities and the growth in well-being brought to the area as a result of these activities can be enhanced significantly through investment in culture and in structures enabling innovation.

Transforming content into business

The Creative Tampere programme accepts this challenge by creating products, successful business, and new services based on content development, and by increasing the co-operation between creative sectors and business life.

Three central targets

The programme has three central targets, which support one another. These goals are based on the selected theme areas:

• strengthening the creative industries
• creating new innovations and platforms and tools which nurture innovations and entrepreneurship
• enhancing the attractiveness of the city