Clusters and Innovation in the Creative Industries: Insights from the Creative Industries Radar Survey
| Dates: | 16 November 2020 |
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| Times: | 15:30 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Speaker: | Dr Josh Siepel |
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Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by guest speaker, Dr Josh Siepel, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Management at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.
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Clusters and Innovation in the Creative Industries: Insights from the Creative Industries Radar Survey
Abstract: The creative industries play an increasingly important role in the UK economy, but there are numerous areas where there is little robust evidence about creative industries businesses and the challenges they face. As a means of addressing some of these gaps, our team from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre have launched the Creative Industries Radar programme, involves the combination of scraped web data, surveys and open data. In this talk I will discuss some of our initial findings from the study, with particular reference to our forthcoming report on the role of microclusters in the creative industries. In the report we show that companies in microclusters (that is, smaller geographically concentrated groups of creative industries businesses) have a number of different attributes compared to businesses outside of microclusters. This difference is particularly strong for those companies outside major creative clusters. In addition to this, I will also share some new findings from the study relating to innovation in the creative industries as it relates to these microclusters.
Josh Siepel is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Management at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the intersection between entrepreneurship, skills and innovation, with particular reference to the role of creative industries and creative skills in the economy. He leads the Clusters and Innovation workstrand of the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre. He is the PI at Sussex for the ERDF DRIVA (Digital Research in Innovation Value Accelerator) project. He has been PI for research projects valued at over £1.37 million. His research focuses on exploring policy-relevant issues with academic rigour. For instance he was the lead author of the 2016 Fusion Effect report for Nesta, which documented the economic impact of the combination of arts and creative skills in the UK. His research has been covered in publications including Forbes, HR Magazine and Arts Professional, and has been cited in parliamentary evidence in the UK and Canada and by the World Economic Forum. He has carried out commissioned research for the UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills, Nesta, the National Physical Laboratory, British Venture Capital Association, and European Commission. His research has been published in journals such as Small Business Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, R&D Management and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. He has successfully supervised five PhD students, who have gone on to work in academia and policy.
Speaker
Dr Josh Siepel
Role: Senior Lecturer
Organisation: Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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