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CIIC sponsors creative3

31 March 2010 Entrepreneurship QLD

The Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC) is sponsoring creative3, an event that aims to empower creative entrepreneurs to harness creativity, investment and enterprise.
 
This international forum, organised by QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, will be held in Brisbane from 14 – 16 April 2010.

The event, targeting the areas of film, television, new media, design and music, 
aims to empower creative practitioners and organisations to build successful creative businesses.

Creative3 also called for entries nation wide for a competition for emerging creative businesses to pitch their business ideas to a panel of experts in the creative3 Investment Marketplace, where the winner receives a business prize valued at $100,000 (*terms and conditions apply). The seven finalists were announced recently:

• Cherry Red Music (QLD)
• Designbythem (NSW)
• Half a Teaspoon (VIC)
• My Brandtag (QLD)
• Hermetica Software (TAS)
• Vumi (QLD)
• Wrappingitup.tv (QLD)

As part of the prize pool, the CIIC is providing the winner entry to the CIIC Accelerator, an experimental business growth program that connects selected high potential creative businesses with experts in finance, strategy, technological innovation and intellectual property to help them realise their potential for growth.
 

CIIC Director of Programs and Partnerships, Adam Blake said, “The Creative Industries Innovation Centre is focused on growing the strength and sustainability of Australia’s creative business community and we see that events like Creative3 provide an opportunity to people working in the creative industries to develop new knowledge and to make their business ideas a reality.”