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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 eight self-defined innovation districts from across the UK including: Glasgow Riverside Innovation District, Knowledge Quarter Liverpool, Leeds Innovation District, Knowledge Quarter London, Belfast Harbour, Bristol Temple Quarter, Newcastle Helix 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 News

Productive Placemaking
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Building Communities have launched report, Productive Placemaking. It focuses on the human dimension to infrastructure investment and shows how infrastructure facilitates our ability to interact in public spaces.

Other News

NLA speaks to Alexandra Notay who is placemaking and investment director at PfP Capital. She talks about placemaking, build to rent and the social value of development.

HRH have published report Innovation Zones: How the Federal Government Can Create Thriving, Place-Based Innovation Ecosystems

Arup's City Living Barometer assessed the liveability of London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Milan and have launched a shining light on the vision of a 15-minute city.

The Global Institute of Innovation Districts latest article explores how, for Innovation Districts, an Inclusive Future Demands a New Kind of Anchor.

London Daily Post article asks Has COVID-19 accelerated placemaking development?

Podcasts

Centre for Cities podcast City Talks discusses the history of cities and how they have shaped the way people interact and driven human progress forward with Ben Wilson.

UCL podcast series Inclusive Innovators, part of the East London Inclusive enterprise Zone (ELIEZ). ELIEZ is an accessible, specially designed, community for entrepreneurs who are disable or whose work focuses on accessibility.

Catapult Connected Places Podcast discusses "What now for Real Estate?" And where might the opportunities lie for innovation in how we imagine, design and operate our buildings and physical assets?

Partner News

Bristol One City have launched a City Strategy that sets out priorities for Recovery and Renewal to support Bristol's economy post Covid.

Based in Newcastle Helix The UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) together with VOICE has partnered with CIRKEL, a US-based company providing intergenerational networking services for two-way mentorships, learning, and connectedness in the workplace.

The ‘Build a Better Tomorrow’ challenge, part of the new BUILD programme, has been launched by the Leeds City Region cohort who participated in the MIT REAP. The 12 week programme, running from January to April 2021, is designed specifically for early stage start-ups to help accelerate business ideas that have the potential and ambition to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges

Queen Elizabeth East Bank culture and education hub will spur London’s and UK’s recovery. Economic and social benefits are already apparent and will multiply and spread in the years to come

Knowledge Quarter Liverpool will support the growth of new innovative businesses by promoting programmes that invest in research, positioning Liverpool as a world leader of global innovation. The Knowledge Quarter encompasses a three step vision that will fuel inward investment, improving the area and its surrounds: making the place, Improving the connectivity and attracting investment.

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