This report mapped out how employment was likely to change in the future – including the implications for skills – and anticipates a number of new occupations. The study challenged… Read More »The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030
Trends impacting on US and UK employment in 2030 The drivers of change shaping the future of US and UK employment and the need for different skills. This slide deck… Read More »The Future of Skills
This report argued that to support the growth of the creative industries, we need to ensure that the UK is able to access talent from outside of Europe. Publication date:… Read More »Skilled migration and the UK’s creative industries
UK businesses need the right analytic skills to thrive in the big data era. This report identified what these skills are, and the situation in the labour market for data… Read More »Skills of the Datavores: Talent and the data revolution
Using social media data to understand the impact of a conference on social networks The research used social media data from Twitter to develop a methodology for understanding the effects… Read More »The Net Effect
This paper looks at why the UK needs one million new creative jobs by 2030 and offers five sets of policy recommendations for government to achieve this. Publication date: 21… Read More »The creative economy and the future of employment
This report explored future automation and creativity in the UK and US workforces and found that creative jobs will be much more resistant to automation than most other jobs. These… Read More »Creativity vs Robots
Estimating the effect of data and online analytics on firm performance This paper used a survey of data activity for 500 UK firms which were commercially active online to quantify… Read More »The analytical firm
How data and online analytics affect business performance This briefing paper describes the background, data, method and findings of an analysis of the link between data activity and business performance.… Read More »Inside the Datavores
This landmark report set out how the UK can be transformed into the world’s leading talent hub for video games and visual effects. Publication date: 22 October 2013
This report looked at how only a small minority of UK businesses use data analysis despite the significant benefit it brings. A business survey by Nesta showed how a small… Read More »Rise of the datavores: how UK businesses can benefit from their data