Innovation Districts: How can we drive growth in major UK cities?

UK Innovation Districts Group in collaboration with Arup created Innovation Districts: How can we drive growth in major UK cities? report.

In today’s modern economy, the cities that will be successful are those that can harness and commercialise the knowledge, creativity and ideas from their most innovative and diverse people and institutions. Universities, hospitals, government functions, cultural institutions, start-up companies and knowledge-intensive firms can all innovate through collaboration. These urban areas with networks of knowledge-producing organisations are known as innovation districts.

Innovation districts are reshaping and regenerating parts of major UK cities, creating and attracting new high quality jobs in accessible locations. They are enabling our cities to create the new products, processes, technologies and high growth firms that will drive productivity growth.

A clear focus, sufficient resource and collaboration is needed to realise the full potential of innovation districts. UK Innovation Districts Group together with Arup, this report looks to drive more productive growth through 5 specific recommendations from Government prioritisation to creating a national network of knowledge quarters.

Read the Innovation Districts: How can we drive growth in major UK cities? report here.

News Digest: December 2019

Welcome

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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