ABSTRACT
Back in 1998 the city of Roskilde in Denmark celebrated its millennium. At that time a visionary think-tank was appointed with the aim of looking ahead and focusing on the future development of the city and the region. To describe the region’s strong points and characteristics, the think tank identified three key areas: (1) music; (2) knowledge; and (3) water (i.e. inlets and springs). Out of that came the first vague idea about a “musicon valley”, which represents the vision of developing the Roskilde region in terms of the topics music and knowledge with the ambition “to create an international power centre for the creative industries in the region”.
