Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Description
Creative PEC State of the Nations report launch.
Place matters when it comes to creativity.
Where do creative clusters arise and what can policymakers do to optimise intervention? This first report in our new State of the Nations series explores three different levels of the UK’s creative industries geography: microclusters, clusters, and corridors.
The research shines a light on the role of microclusters in the creative industries, and explains why creative clusters are good targets for intervention and investment, and a key engine for economic growth in the UK.
An online event to launch the report. The lead author Dr Josh Siepel (University of Sussex and Creative PEC Research Consortium Partner for R&D, Innovation and Clusters) discussed the findings with an expert panel of industry and policy leaders working in the creative sector. The panel was made up of: Syima Aslam from Bradford Literature Festival, Dr Jen Ballie from V&A Dundee, Lauren Lucas from the Local Government Association, and Professor Sara Pepper from Cardiff University.
Nearly 70% of all the UK’s creative industries’ gross value added (GVA) is concentrated in London and the South-East. This constitutes a ‘supercluster’ with considerable benefits for the UK economy; attracting talent, investment, infrastructure, supporting knowledge exchange and fuelling economic growth. The new research identifies seven broad areas - ‘creative corridors’ - within the UK which have the potential to bring supercluster style benefits.
The findings are based on the latest available data sets, that uncover new evidence on the UK's creative clusters, from updated mapping of microclusters to experimental analysis on identifying creative corridors. They build on the Creative PEC’s extensive research in this area, in reports like Creative Radar, which mapped business activity and identified creative clusters.
Period
6 Dec 2023
Event title
State of the Nations: launching A Creative PEC State of the Nations report
