Dynamics of the Media and Content Industries, Brussels, 25-26 October 2012

摘要

End of October 2012, the weather is chill and wet in Brussels. Approximately 100 registered participants, most are nicely dressed in suit and tie, hurry into the beautiful Renaissance Brussels Hotel near the buildings of the European Parliament and the European Commission. Not only the setting but also the impressive list of attendees reveals what is at stake. A highly diversified set of expert speakers coming from leading firms and trade associations, national and European policy-makers, and academics from Europe and the United States are eager to discuss and hear about the future of the media and content industries, and the likely impact of digital technology on the production, distribution, pricing and consumption of media products and services. The two-day conference, organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), is considered the final event of the research programme on the 'Statistical, ecosystems and competitiveness analysis of the media and content industries'. Indeed, the challenges of the digital transformation for the creative industries are high on the agenda of European policy-makers these days.