Social Mapping

该项目旨在改变英国理解创新和知识交流网络和中心（KE）如何运作的方式。希望推动创意产业增长的政策制定者和资助者发现了当前数据存在的一个问题。前沿经济学为DCMS撰写的一份重要研究报告称：“收集创意产业特有的（5个集群创新指标）详细数据存在重大挑战。”获取更多数据…为了在地方层面上进行有力、可靠的分析，政府应该优先考虑。随着时间的推移，大学没有资源来有效地跟踪他们在复杂的合作网络中的影响——随着知识卓越框架与卓越研究框架一起获得牵引力，他们这样做变得势在必行。这个问题在财政上很重要：政府在21/22年度花费了2.67亿英镑用于知识交流（KE）项目。2018年至2023年期间，创意集群花费了1.2亿英镑。在2022年至2025年期间，将有3830万英镑用于创意人才和创意场所（只有一个ACE项目）。这是一个巨大的市场，其成功取决于其有效建立、维护和评估网络的能力，因为它试图监控合作、创新和商业化。目前的情况是，大学的每个学院或学院通常都在聘请早期研究人员全职从事基于桌面的二级研究，并费力地构建报告——这给政府带来了难以估量的成本（我们将在本项目中寻求量化的成本）。通过我们的社交地图工具包，我们计划对这些网络的建立和评估产生真正的影响。该工具包可以帮助维持实践社区，促进新的合作，并长期跟踪人员和创新的复杂系统，从而为如何设计和资助这些系统提供信息。

This project aims to transform the way that the UK understands how networks and hubs of creativity and Knowledge Exchange (KE) work.Policymakers and funders looking to drive growth in the creative industries have identified a problem with current data. A key research paper by Frontier Economics for DCMS says "_There are significant challenges in gathering detailed data on the (_5 indicators of Cluster innovation) _that are specific to the creative industries. Obtaining more data ...for robust, reliable analysis at local level should be a priority for the government."_Universities don't have the resources to effectively track their impact across complex networks of collaborations over time - and it is becoming imperative that they do as the Knowledge Excellence Framework gains traction alongside the Research Excellence Framework.This problem is financially significant: £267 million was spent by the Government on Knowledge Exchange (KE) programmes in 21/22\. £120 million was spent on Creative Clusters between 2018 -2023\. And £38.3 million is being spent on Creative People and Places (just one ACE programme) between 2022-2025\.This is a large market whose success pivots on its ability to effectively set up, maintain and evaluate networks as it attempts to monitor collaborations, innovations and commercialisation. The current state of play is that often each faculty or school of a University is hiring Early Stage Researchers to work full time on desk based secondary research and laboriously construct reports - at untold cost to the government (a cost we will seek to quantify under this project).With our Social Mapping toolkit we plan to have a real impact on how these networks are set up and evaluated. The toolkit can help maintain communities of practice, foster new collaborations and track complex systems of people and innovations over time, in turn informing how they are designed and financed.