TY - BOOK
T1 - Report 1: The Arts & Humanities in the Creative Economy
T2 - Core Learning from the AHRC Creative Economy Hubs programme
AU - Senior, Timothy J.
AU - Cooper, Rachel
AU - Dovey, Jon
AU - Follett, Georgina
AU - Shiach, Morag
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This report is the first of three commissioned in late 2015 by the Directors of the AHRC Creative
Economy Hubs (2012-2016). Together, they follow on from a preliminary report into the Hubs’
activities, titled Connecting to Innovate, further developing its focus on core Learning from the
programme. To this end, the three reports bring together findings from observation work, data
gathering exercises, and semi-structured interviews conducted between January 2015 and May
2016. Working with core Hub team members and selected project participants, these activities
sought to identify, understand, and document the Hubs’ experience of working in the creative
economy. The three reports were completed in January 2017. It is hoped that this articulation of
core learning from the Hubs programme may prove informative for future HEI strategy in this
arena. This first report explores the role of the arts & humanities in the creative economy as revealed
by the four AHRC Hubs. It addresses the scope of this relationship (and those of non-arts &
humanities disciplines); suggests what the arts & humanities bring to the creative economy
when performed in this context; and demonstrates where different constellations of crosssector collaboration have proven particularly powerful in generating new types of creative,
cultural, and economic value. This report will argue for the need to recognise – and embrace –
the innumerable ways in which the arts & humanities can form collaborative relationships with
other disciplinary and creative economy partners. It foregrounds their collaborative potential in
driving research impact beyond academia. In the series, Report Two goes on to analyse the innovation strategies behind the work
discussed in Report One, revealing the emergence of a common innovation framework for Hub
activity in the creative economy. Finally, Report Three considers the organisational implications
of the Hub model for actively gearing universities and the creative economy together.
AB - This report is the first of three commissioned in late 2015 by the Directors of the AHRC Creative
Economy Hubs (2012-2016). Together, they follow on from a preliminary report into the Hubs’
activities, titled Connecting to Innovate, further developing its focus on core Learning from the
programme. To this end, the three reports bring together findings from observation work, data
gathering exercises, and semi-structured interviews conducted between January 2015 and May
2016. Working with core Hub team members and selected project participants, these activities
sought to identify, understand, and document the Hubs’ experience of working in the creative
economy. The three reports were completed in January 2017. It is hoped that this articulation of
core learning from the Hubs programme may prove informative for future HEI strategy in this
arena. This first report explores the role of the arts & humanities in the creative economy as revealed
by the four AHRC Hubs. It addresses the scope of this relationship (and those of non-arts &
humanities disciplines); suggests what the arts & humanities bring to the creative economy
when performed in this context; and demonstrates where different constellations of crosssector collaboration have proven particularly powerful in generating new types of creative,
cultural, and economic value. This report will argue for the need to recognise – and embrace –
the innumerable ways in which the arts & humanities can form collaborative relationships with
other disciplinary and creative economy partners. It foregrounds their collaborative potential in
driving research impact beyond academia. In the series, Report Two goes on to analyse the innovation strategies behind the work
discussed in Report One, revealing the emergence of a common innovation framework for Hub
activity in the creative economy. Finally, Report Three considers the organisational implications
of the Hub model for actively gearing universities and the creative economy together.
UR - https://www.designinaction.com
M3 - Commissioned report
BT - Report 1: The Arts & Humanities in the Creative Economy
PB - Arts and Humanities Research Council
ER -