The Innovative Design Cluster, the first cluster dedicated to design in Greece, presents its activities and invites selected speakers to map the ecosystem of design in Thessaloniki and in Greece, to unfold the difficulties as well as the challenges of strengthening the clusters of innovation in Greece, to share experiences and best practices from other European countries and to discuss if mergers and synergies are the solution for tiny, small and medium sized businesses to operate in the highly competitive environment of globalized entrepreneurship.