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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.
This month the Black Lives Matter movement has been at the forefront of our thoughts with protests for long overdue change taking place around the world. Shining a light on how racism is structural and systemic with many of our long-standing systems and frameworks truly unjust. There's now cause for many organisations, institutions and individuals to reflect on how they operate and what changes can be made.
Again and again it is proven that diversity of thought makes us stronger, in fact, innovation districts are fueled by this. They are an intersection of many different sectors, typologies and crucially, people. Mix and diversity of fresh thought is needed to make innovation districts work. We have always championed the business need for inclusive growth, along side the moral need, and the necessity to be more inclusive and diverse has never been felt more strongly. We have an opportunity to change things for the better; to demonstrate commitment to inclusive growth through stronger civic engagement and ensuring the voices that are heard are those that truly represent the places we are building.
UK Innovation Districts Group is committed to learning and using it's platform to support the BLM movement, as we stand in solidarity with our black partners and peers. We acknowledge that we need to do better and that this is the time for us all to reflect, act and truly deliver inclusive places.
Top Stories
How to Restart an Inclusive Economy
ACH have launched a report setting out the vital importance of valuing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities and businesses in the road to recovery. The document outlines how to kick-start economic recovery in a truly inclusive way in Bristol.
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Other News
BEIS are convening business focused, economic recover working groups. The outputs from these roundtables will feed directly into the government’s work on economic recovery. As a group the UK IDG aims to be a contributor.
Nesta has published an article focusing on the role of innovation agencies in the support for businesses and innovators in the time of Covid-19.
DCMS have announced future trade strategy for the UK tech industry. These new measures are to boost digital trade and help turn the UK into a global tech powerhouse.
The Guardian have published an article discussing the need for a serious urban regeneration plan after Covid-19.
University of Birmingham have published an update Realising the Potential of Inclusive Growth: Lessons From USE-IT on their blog.
Project for public places have posted 5 takeaways from their webinar Don’t Look Back: Equity and Recovery in Public Space During COVID-19 focusing on the importance of inclusive public spaces.
BSA Scotland have launched a report Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: 10 Lessons from Lockdown.
Centre for Cities latest podcast, City talks, discusses Face-to-face interaction and why cities still matter in the information age.
Partner News
London Partners Knowledge Quarter London and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park have launched a research paper together with NLA exploring the growth in knowledge-intensive industries across London, Oxford and Cambridge, known as the ‘Golden Triangle’, and examines how the knowledge economy can be strengthened across this region.
Liverpool has set out a £1.4BN 5-Year Coronavirus recovery plan that could deliver more that 40,000 jobs and apprenticeships.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is launching an open competition for a service provider to run it’s Good Growth Hub.
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