Martijn Arnoldus specialises in the creative industries, particularly copyright and open content issues. As consultant, he has been pivotal to the majority of Knowledgeland’s projects on the creative economy since 2005.

Martijn’s current work is around creative industry policy and entrepreneurship. Work in his in-tray ranges from requests for strategic advice to copyright problems to business models for creative entrepreneurs. As a senior consultant on open content licenses, Martijn is a member of the Creative Commons Netherlands project team and advises the Images for the Future consortium. He frequently advises public authorities, the educational and business sectors across all these areas, as well as researching and teaching at universities.

Martijn has a social geography background. He was a researcher of creative cities, social and cultural breeding places (‘broedplaatsen’) and cultural quarters at the University of Amsterdam. Later he joined the Technical University of Delft as a researcher.

At the beginning of 2004 Knowledgeland invited him to participate in a workshop on creative cities as part of the KL annual meeting at the Culture Park, Westergasfabriek; this meeting turned out to be the genesis of the creative industry theme at Kennisland. A year later, Martijn transferred to the newly-furnished residence of KL on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam.