Cereal Games is a technology development company based in the Azores. Their main goal (and core activity) is the digital development of “serious games”, i.e. interactive games structured according to the principles of entertainment, but for educational and/or informative purposes (e.g. educational games, advergames and health games). In parallel, this company also aims to present scientifically proven solutions, so that product users can have real entertainment and education simultaneously. With strategic partnerships with the University of the Azores and IT companies, Cereal Games has developed into a strong research-based game developer. The company has published dissertations, posters and communications about digital game-based learning, health games, and exergames. Moreover, through an acceleration programme, the local government is supporting the company to develop its business within the internet of the future and, consequently, to greatly improve its competitiveness.
Source: cerealgames.net
Example of strategy 1B:
Stimulate the Development of Creatives’ New Products and Ventures
Directly or indirectly, island governments can stimulate their creative industries (arts and crafts, product designers, architects, communication and media designers, service and app developers, etc.) to develop new, sustainable concepts based upon local conditions and strengths. With an emerging tourism market on many islands, new products based on local -not yet fully explored- materials for instance, can create interesting new product-market combinations, that tourists love to buy. Such local materials could be produced through new applications of known natural resources, like cork (isolation), shells (building material), wool (isolation) and grain (local food, local beer).
They are also valuable for completely new products and ventures with new sources of inspiration, like the use of seaweed for food and cosmetics or the use of salty water areas for the growth of high-quality salty food plants. Likewise, algae from the sea are now used as building blocks for the small-scale production of bio-based materials, applied in furniture, house building, etc. (Source: Studio Veenhoven, 2017. Amaral, 2019). The local government can support the on- island creative community in their discovery of such new options. Not only with the establishment of new creative businesses and alliances on the island but also by actively mobilizing their policy network on the mainland and EU-wide.
