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Welcome to the UK Innovation Districts Group Monthly Digest. Join us as we explore trends, lessons and new insights into innovation, regeneration, inclusive growth, placemaking and the sustainable and accessible creation of Innovation Districts and Knowledge Quarters.
The UKIDG is a network of five self-defined innovation districts from across the UK including: Glasgow Riverside Innovation District; Knowledge Quarter Liverpool, Leeds Innovation District, Knowledge Quarter London; and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. As a group, we aim to make the case for our urban centres and their potential to advance research in areas such as AI, medical sciences and the humanities, while growing the UK’s wider economy.
Each of our Monthly Digests is dedicated to ensuring that you are kept up to date with the latest thought leadership and research in this area.
Top Stories
Nesta
Nesta have published a report looking at how innovation testbeds are being used to safely test out innovation and new technologies in the Real World.
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Innovation Districts on a global scale.
Read on for an article by Global Institute of Innovation Districts on Placemaking and the Evolution of Innovation Districts.
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Other News
Centre for Cities together with ARUP have published Urban Voices: UK City Leaders Survey 2019
The Progressive Policy Think Tank has published a think piece focusing on How mayors can build inclusive economies for the future
Placemaking resource have published Analysis : Tackling inequality through place shaping
Fundación ONCE and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network have published a report titled 'Making the future of work inclusive of people with disabilities.'
CLES have published a report on the role of social capital and agency in community business formation in deprived communities.
Centre for London have published a report examining the role of neighbourhoods in shaping the city, strengthening community and enhancing public services titled, Act Local: Empowering London’s Neighbourhoods
Nesta have published an article exploring how the most advanced knowledge-based industries cluster together, primarily in small areas of big cities Innovation districts- How cities speed up the circulation of ideas.
PwC and the think tank Demos have developed an index that measures good financial growth in UK cities called Good Growth for Cities 2019.
Brookings have published a report on transformative placemaking to create connected, vibrant and inclusive communities.
The Muscatelli report has been published exploring universities role in driving innovation in Scotland.
The German Marshal fund of the United states have published a report focusing on increasing equity and inclusion in urban development through transatlantic exchange.
The Daily Maverick highlight the need for a more ‘relational’ developmental state — able to engage in effective, collaborative partnerships and explore a ‘whole of society’ approach to social innovation that is being developed in Turin, Italy.
The Social Progress Imperative have launched the Social Progress index
Partner News
Scientists at the University of Leeds have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick – the thinnest unsupported gold ever created.
Autonomous vehicle, Capri, trial at QEOP will demonstrate the latest autonomous pod technology and emulate the benefits of an autonomous pod service by operating four trials in real-world environments, in both Bristol and London.
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