SHAPE Your City: Growing Innovation through Creative Clusters.

This course equips you with a comprehensive understanding of creative clusters and their potential for fostering innovation, economic development, and skills transformation. Explore how universities can strategically engage with these dynamic, place-based ecosystems to enhance research impact, cultivate industry partnerships, and contribute to sustainable regional growth.

This short course has been generated from content from the panel session at reSHAPE 2025 held at the British Academy entitled: SHAPE Your City: Growing Innovation through Creative Clusters.

Starring:

Julian Jantke, Co-founder Kindling Ventures (Chair)

Catherine Kerfoot, Associate Director for Major Programmes and Cross-Council Partnership, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Bernard Hay, Head of Policy, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

Professor Jane Harris, Director of Research and Innovation, University of the Arts London