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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
UK IDG January Round Table in Leeds
UK Innovation Districts Group convened a great round table yesterday at Nexus Innovation Centre at the University of Leeds exploring place-based innovation and the importance of networks & soft assets.
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Innovating UK Innovation Policy
Nesta have published a report Innovating UK Innovation Policy making the advanced research projects agency model work here and now
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Other News
Centre for Cities weekly podcast City Talks: How to spread tech innovation has Mark Muro join Andrew Carter to discuss the proposals to transform a handful of places in the US into self-sustaining ‘growth centres’, and how this might be replicated in the UK context.
J. Walter Thompson Intelligence has published Future 100: 2020, Trends and change to watch in 2020
Open Your City have posted Innovation Districts. Growth or Decline?
Cities Journal have published a paper with learnings from leading Australian cities How can an enhanced community engagement with innovation districts be established?
Centre for London have published a report supported by the Mayor of London Public London: the regulation, management and use of public spaces
Brookings have released report The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America
'It’s easy to see how developing innovation districts like this will be essential for raising regional prosperity – where research excellence and innovation strengths can mesh with local and regional industry, supported by the right mix of infrastructure investment and regulatory freedoms that will deliver real jobs and real growth.
It is a genuinely exciting prospect – one that I want us to pursue further, right across the UK.'
Read Science Minister Chris Skidmore's full speech here.
Partner News
London Partners, Knowledge Quarter London and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, have commissioned a report together with Future Places titled Citizen Based Social Innovation exploring the best in class citizen based participatory projects and what Innovation Districts can learn from their approach
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