Brighton Fuse 2

布莱顿数字技术2是一项研究赠款，继续由AHRC资助的布莱顿数字技术项目，以绘制、测量和增强布莱顿和霍韦市的创意数字信息技术（CDIT）集群（www.brightonfuse.com）。该项目的合作伙伴是布赖顿大学（布赖顿商学院和艺术学院）、苏塞克斯大学（SPRU）、有线苏塞克斯大学和工业和高等教育理事会。研究所2在两个领域进行了整合研究：首先，通过调查和定性数据收集，研究布莱顿集群内的自由职业者社区。这将评估自由职业者社区与城市中数字公司的参与程度，以及他们在多大程度上代表了维持集群的灵活资源。该调查将研究自由职业者的行业多样性及其业务和创新绩效。定性工作将研究的工作条件和“组合职业生涯”的优点和缺点。该项目的第二个工作包是对CDIT企业进行小组调查，以提供与原始调查可比的数据集，从而能够分析集群的动态。这种分析的目的是了解变量之间的因果关系，例如，网络活动，协作和业务绩效。小组调查还将提供数字营销、社交媒体、视频游戏开发和艺术组织等行业相对稳定的证据。该项目旨在考虑所获得的学术见解对创意数字经济以及大学和感兴趣的组织的政策影响。

Brighton Fuse 2 is a research grant continuing the previous Brighton Fuse project funded by AHRC to map, measure and enhance the Creative Digital Information Technology (CDIT) cluster in the City of Brighton and Hove (www.brightonfuse.com). Partners of the project are the University of Brighton (CENTRIM, Brighton Business School and Faculty of Arts), University of Sussex (SPRU), Wired Sussex and the Council for Industry and Higher Education. Fuse 2 undertakes consolidating research in two areas: firstly, examining the freelancer communities within the Brighton cluster through a survey and qualitative data collection. This will assess the engagement of the freelancer communities with the digital firms in the city and the extent to which they represent a flexible resource that sustains the cluster. The survey will research the sectoral diversity of freelancers and their business and innovation performance. The qualitative work will research the conditions of work and the advantages and disadvantages of the 'portfolio career'. The second work package of the project is a panel survey of CDIT businesses to provide a comparable dataset to the original Fuse survey to enable analysis of the dynamics of the cluster. This analysis will be aimed at understanding causal relations between variables, for example, networking activities, collaboration, and business performance. The panel survey will also provide evidence on the relative stability of the sectors such as digital marketing, social media, video games development and arts organisations. The project is aimed at considering the policy implications of the academic insights gained for the creative digital economy and for universities and interested organisations.