Geographies of Creativity
A Creative PEC State of the Nations report Place matters when it comes to creativity. Where do creative clusters arise and what can policymakers do to optimise ...
Northern England’s Creative Industries
The Creative Industries are already a driver of growth across the UK economy. Export-intensive and major employers, they also attract significant investment fro...
Estimating the Contribution of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) R&D to Creative Industries R&D
The UK’s creative industries are hugely innovative; PEC research has suggested that over two-thirds of creative industries businesses conduct R&D. Bu...
Understanding createch R&D
This report makes for a timely contribution for UK policymakers as they revisit growth priorities for the creative industries. Createch is a term that has been ...
How can policy makers help rural creative businesses contribute to Levelling Up?
The creative industries have the potential to play a major role in the development of rural communities and businesses. Our new research, funded by NICRE&n...
Mapping and examining the determinants of England’s rural creative microclusters
More targeted support could unleash the potential of Rural Creative Enterprises It is well documented that creative industries are clustered in urban areas. Thi...
Key Facts About R&D in the Creative Industries
R&D plays a key role in the innovation processes of many businesses, and is also a driver of economic growth at the local, regional and national level. For ...
Starving the golden goose? Access to finance for innovators in the creative industries
Please note: this paper has been accepted in Journal of Cultural Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10824-022-09448-5 This problem can make it hard for creative indu...
Creative Radar 2021: The impact of COVID-19 on the UK’s creative industries
This is the second report from the Creative Radar series, by PEC researchers at the University of Sussex, and funded by the AHRC. The authors analysed data from...
Small engines of growth: Understanding creative microclusters
Think about a creative cluster: What comes to mind? Creative clusters are the buzzing centres of the creative industries, where creative individuals and compani...
Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries
Major urban centres are the sorts of places we would expect to find creative businesses clustered together. Yet go beyond London’s Shoreditch, Manchester’s ...
Evolution and trends of creative cluster research
A systematic literature review and future research agenda The geographical clustering of creative and cultural industries is a topic that has gone from being re...
10 tips for designing business surveys to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the creative industries
The COVID-19 crisis has generated an unprecedented level of economic disruption in a short space of time, with the nation’s economic activity having shifted e...
How location impacts the creative industries
Location matters, especially in the creative industries. The area of work I am leading will be looking at two important ways that location impacts the creative ...