This document outlines core indicators for measuring the success of CURE (Creative Urban Renewal) projects. It defines indicators as characteristics that can be measured to assess interventions and their outputs or results. The indicators are organized under four dimensions: Learning Lab, Cultural Value Chain, Flow of Diversity, and Cultural Business Modeling. Each dimension contains sub-values and specific indicators that partners will use to evaluate their projects. The indicators focus on topics like expanding entrepreneurial capacities, creating working spaces, cultural events, collaborative projects, urban planning, and employment in creative firms. While the core indicators will be used by all partners, each city can also add their own relevant local indicators.

1. CURE: Creative Urban
Renewal
Rene
Kooyman
22 Nov
Dublin
Creative Zone Innovator:
Conceptual Framework, Criteria and Indicators

2. Indicators:
definition
An indicator can be defined as:
'a characteristic or attribute
which can be measured
to assess an intervention
in terms of its outputs or results'.

3. Why Indicators for CURE
?
EU DG Regional Development since
1995 systematic evaluation of socio-
economical development
Indicators are:
• relevant to the monitoring or evaluation of a
programme
• linked to a policy goal, objective and/or target
• measured regularly (state of affairs)
• steps are taken to ensure data gathering is
reliable

4. Core Indicators: Core
values

5. A. DIMENSION Learning lab
SUB-VALUE Expand entrepreneurial capacities; innovative creative results
1 Development of entrepreneurial capabilities creative professionals
Examples: inventory of educational needs, training and schooling initiatives,
entrepreneurial training and support. Description of changes in quality
assessment, entrepreneurial capabilities
2 Create flexible working spaces Co-creation areas
Examples: Description and inventory of spaces (number and/or m2),
ateliers, exhibition spaces, conferences, performances, multi-media
accommodations, etc.
SUB-VALUE Individual and networked learning
3 Number of platforms, networks or events for learning
Examples: courses, trainings, mentorships, apprenticeships, supervisory and
support facilities, etc.
4 Cooperation with knowledge institutions and/or educational institutions
Examples: contacts and interaction with schools, trainers and teachers,
educational support

6. B. DIMENSION Cultural Value Chain
SUB VALUE Enhancing the infrastructure
5 Getting the stakeholders involved and committed
Examples: identification and description stakeholders, the process
of creating and sustaining their involvement and commitment
SUB VALUE: Sustainable entrepreneurial development; positioning
and profiling
6 Number of cultural events
Examples: number (quantitative statistics) and/or qualitative
identity of events, cultural profiles, strategic market positioning

7. C. DIMENSION Flow of Diversity
SUB VALUE Combining commercial and not for profit entrepreneurs
7
Number of collaborative working contacts and projects
Examples: nr and types of conferences, symposiums, festivals, multi-
disciplinary events, visitors, publications, etc.
SUB VALUE Stimulating new and spontaneous encounters
8
Diversity in disciplines, business categories, target groups, cultural
activities, events and practices
Examples: description and analyses of different cultural actors involved,
count target groups, type of participants, type of cultural activities
9 Involvement of community representation
Examples: participation of local actors, organisations, representatives and
inhabitants, participants (numbers or description)

8. D. DIMENSION Cultural Business Modelling
SUB-VALUE Combine urban planning and creative entrepreneurial development
10 Create an integrated development; combine the 3 p's: people, places and pounds (€)
Examples: integration of the three aspects, the social, the territorial and financial
aspects
11 Achieve a return on investment on the real estate development
Examples: financial paragraph, describing investment and financial prognoses and/or
results
SUB-VALUE Accelerate entrepreneurial development
12 Number and Employment figures of creative firms, especially SMEs
Examples: statistics regarding firms, creative entrepreneurs (individuals), joint
ventures, strategic alliances
13 Improve the use of urban space for creative entrepreneurs; (re)use of buildings
Examples: development, renovation and/or re-use of urban spaces (nr and/or m2),
re-use of urban space and collective facilities
Note: These are the indicators that all partners will use and implement.
Each city can add its own relevant and important indicators!

9. CURE:
Creativ
e
Urban
Renew
al
European Research and Training Centre for Cultural Entrepreneurship ERTCCE
Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Art and Economics
Utrecht University (UU) , Art and Economics