Collaborative Arts Triple Helix (CATH)

合作艺术三重障碍（CATH）项目将使用代金券计划和一系列的四个跨部门研讨会，启动多达16个小型项目，使伯明翰大学和莱斯特大学的学者能够与中小企业和小型文化组织（SCO）合作，探索富有成效的合作，其中一些将产生适合向公众发布和/或进一步开发的原型数字输出（例如iPhone应用程序、触摸桌应用程序或网络工具）。学券计划将主要吸引艺术及人文学科的学者，但最少有4张学券将面向其他学科。与此同时，项目小组将进行研究，探讨三个合作界别的持份者（创意中小企业，SCO，学者）以前遇到的，参与者在项目期间遇到的，以及如何克服这些障碍。我们的大部分研究将集中在CATH项目本身，包括对所有三个部门的参与组织的采访和对项目研讨会的观察，其中一部分将涉及使用CATH凭证开发数字原型团队工作的讨论。CATH研究人员和项目参与者将询问“三重障碍”合作（涉及所有三个部门在项目上的合作）是否已经并仍然受到缺乏共享专业词汇的阻碍，以及对其他部门的运营和战略驱动因素和参数（包括不熟悉的政策和资金环境，以及管理和治理结构和文化）的有限知识和理解。我们还将共同探讨小型文化组织是否面临参与三重障碍工作的特殊障碍，以及是什么激励他们，中小企业和学者克服这些挑战。部分基于他们自己的三重阻碍伙伴关系的经验，CATH团队开始假设欧盟是正确的，以促进这种工作模式作为产生学术，社会，文化和经济价值的关键机制。简而言之，三重障碍协作带来的产出和成果超过了各部分的总和。我们的目标是建立是否CATH代金券系统时，由定期研讨会论坛和项目经纪人的持续支持，有助于弥合迈克尔·波特（哈佛商学院）的“价值链”中的差距，假设其合作工作可以互惠互利，对社会有益的部门之间存在。该项目的研究和实践将为三重障碍合作的“最佳做法指南”的制作提供信息，该指南将通过该中心的网页和参与者的专业网络传播。该指南将帮助学术界，中小企业和SCO更有效地合作，并提供一个案例研究的好处，但也有挑战，由这样的工作，无论他们是否采用CATH券/讲习班/经纪模式提供。

The Collaborative Arts Triple Helix (CATH) project will use a voucher scheme and a series of four cross-sector workshops to initiate up to sixteen small-scale projects that enable academics from the University of Birmingham and University of Leicester to work in partnership with an SME and a small cultural organisation (SCO) to explore productive collaborations, some of which will result in the production of prototype digital outputs (e.g. an iPhone app, touch table app, or web tool) that is suitable for release to the public and/or further development. The voucher scheme will principally draw academics from the Arts and Humanities but at least 4 vouchers will be targeted at other disciplines.In parallel, the project team will conduct research relating to the barriers to such collaborative work that stakeholders in each of the three partner sectors (creative SMEs, SCOs, academics) have encountered previously, those encountered by participants during the project, and the ways in which such barriers can be and are overcome. Much of the our research will concentrate on the CATH project itself, involving interviews with participant organisations from all three sectors and observation of the project workshops which will, in part, involve discussions focused on the work of teams developing digital prototypes using CATH vouchers. CATH researchers and project participants will be asking whether 'Triple Helix' collaboration (involving all three sectors working together on projects) has been and is still being impeded by the absence of shared professional vocabularies, and limited knowledge and understanding of other sectors' operational and strategic drivers and parameters (including unfamiliar policy and funding landscapes, and management and governance structures and cultures). Together, we will also be exploring whether small culture organisations face particular barriers to engagement in Triple Helix work, and what has and continues to motivate them, SMEs, and academics to overcome such challenges. Based in part on their own experiences of Triple Helix partnerships, the CATH team begins with the hypothesis that the EU is right to promote such modes of work as key mechanisms for generating academic, social, cultural and economic value. In short, Triple Helix collaboration leads to outputs and outcomes that are more than the sum of their parts. We aim to establish whether the CATH voucher system, when supported by regular workshop forums and on-going support from a project Broker helps to bridge gaps in the 'value chain' that Michael Porter (Harvard Business School), posited as existing between sectors whose collaborative work can be mutually beneficial and beneficial to society. The project's research and practice will inform the production of a 'Best Practice Guide' to Triple Helix collaboration that will be disseminated through the CATH web pages and participants professional networks. The guide will help academics, SMEs, and SCOs collaborate more effectively and offer a case study of the benefits, but also the challenges, afforded by such work, whether or not they employ the CATH voucher/workshops/brokerage model.