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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
Power of place crucial to UK's Covid-19 economic recovery
CaSE has published a new report on how to maximise the local economic impacts of R&D investment and ensure the UK economy rebounds from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Other News
Thinking City have published an article on what the impact of COVID-19 will mean for cities futures around the world called ‘Pandemic Cities: How Will Coronavirus Shape Urban Life?’
ARUP have compiled a number of articles exploring what positive changes post COVId-19 might look like, and what the pandemic might teach us about how to shape a better world. ‘Planning for a better future: ideas and inspirations for the post-pandemic world’
In partnership with the Social Progress Imperative, San José has developed a tool to help catalyse and facilitate community discussions on how to improve our community.
Centre for cities podcast City Talks, in conversation with Richard Florida on the future of cities after the Coronavirus
Monocle’s latest podcast The Urbanist assesses how The Public Realm may have changed through restrictions imposed during COVID-19 and how it might look in the future.
Nesta’s feature Scotland after COVID-19 looks to how their response to the pandemic is highlighting ways we can build a more inclusive society
DCMS have launched a £5 million Loneliness Covid-19 Grant Fund to tackle loneliness during the coronavirus outbreak and period of social distancing.
BEIS have launched the coronavirus Future Fund scheme that will issue convertible loans between £125,000 to £5 million to innovative companies which are facing financing difficulties due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The UK Innovation Corridor is hosting an event, Placemaking for Innovation, next Thursday the 4th of June. The event will look at how place-making for innovation can assist our economic growth as well as the factors which have led to continued investment and start-ups.
Partner News
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool will welcome the opening of a new cancer hospital, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, in June.
Knowledge Quarter London partner Central Saint Martins has been challenging its students and staff to make washable fabric face masks for the general public and scrubs for NHS workers.
Local businesses and venue operators on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park are donating goods, delivering food and medicines and providing online support to help some of the most vulnerable people and key workers in the area during the lockdown. Find out more in the blog and podcast.
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