Creative Fuse North East

Creative Fuse North East将研究以创新为主导的解决问题的新方法如何支持该地区的创意、数字和IT （CDIT）部门。借鉴布莱顿融合，Fusebox 24和伦敦融合的发现和方法，并响应国家大学和商业中心（NCUB）融合宣言，它将探索英格兰东北部非常不同的创意和商业景观。它将强调在劳动力发展、业务增长和创新方面有效利用资源和最佳实践的机会，确定大学可以支持该部门的方式。结合深入的研究和分析（定量和定性），杰出的从业者和商业参与，以及适应性和响应性方法，通过深入的“开放式创新计划”来测试假设并激励合作者；这一跨学科项目将促进与信贷和信息技术部门的共同发展，确定未来支持和干预的建议。它将探讨信贷信贷部门如何在更广泛的经济和社会挑战中为解决方案、解决问题和探索做出贡献，补充现有知识并确定最佳实践。研究问题将集中在三个不同但相互关联的调查领域：1。东北地区信贷信贷业有何独特的区域/地理特征？这些特征是如何促进或抑制创意和数字技能的融合/超融合（Brighton Fuse 2013）以及跨学科工作的？可以共同设计、试点和测试哪些干预措施，以开发新的创新模式，将创意毕业生的技能应用于更广泛的创意经济，特别是解决信贷和信息技术领域创新、增长和可持续性方面的障碍？我们如何才能最有效地整合本地区的资源，特别是大学所拥有的资源（例如网络、技能、知识专长、技术和空间），以及工商及科技界的资源，以增加其他领域的创新和创造力，以应对重大的商业和社会挑战（例如人口老龄化、可持续交通、健康和福祉）？对这些问题的调查还将涉及解决与大学有关的特殊挑战：1：大学的技术转让方法通常涉及为主要工业伙伴设计的严格的基于科学的合同，如何应对小型创意企业的需求？2: Creative Fuse NE如何平衡以地为本的资助需求与研究委员会等机构传统的以卓越为本的方法？3：高等教育机构如何才能最有效地支持区内创意产业的创新外溢，以及如何将其他领域的创新转移到本地，以惠及本地的资讯科技业？

Creative Fuse North East will investigate how new approaches to innovation-led problem solving can support the region's creative, digital and IT (CDIT) sector. Drawing on findings and approaches of Brighton Fuse, Fusebox 24 and London Fusion and responding to the National Centre for Universities and Businesses (NCUB) Fuse Manifesto, it will explore the very different creative and commercial landscape of North East England. It will highlight opportunities for effective resource use and best practice in workforce development, business growth and innovation, identifying ways that universities can support the sector. Combining intensive research and analysis (both quantitative and qualitative), exceptional practitioner and business engagement, and adaptable and responsive methodologies to test hypotheses and inspire collaborators via an in-depth 'open innovation programme'; this interdisciplinary project will facilitate co-development with the CDIT sector, identifying recommendations for future support and intervention. It will explore how the CDIT sector can contribute to solutions, problem-solving and exploration across broader economic and societal challenges, complementing existing knowledge and identifying best practice. The research questions will focus on three distinct but interrelated areas of investigation: 1. What are the distinctive regional/ geographic characteristics of the CDIT sector in the North East? How do these characteristics promote or inhibit fusion/super-fusion of creative and digital skills (Brighton Fuse 2013) and interdisciplinary working?2. What interventions can be co-designed, piloted and tested to develop new models for innovation that will apply skills from creative graduates to benefit the wider creative economy, particularly addressing barriers to innovation, growth and sustainability in the CDIT sector?3. How can we most effectively join up the region's resources, especially those held by the universities (e.g. networks, skills, intellectual expertise, technologies and spaces) and those in the CDIT sector, to increase innovation and creativity in other sectors to address major business and societal challenges (e.g. ageing demographic, sustainable transport, health and wellbeing)?Investigation of these questions will also involve addressing particular challenges in relation to universities:1: How do university approaches to technology transfer, often involving rigid science-based contracts designed for major industrial partners, cope with the needs of smaller creative businesses? 2: How can Creative Fuse NE balance the demands of place-based funding with the conventional excellence-based approach of bodies such as the Research Councils?3: How can HEIs best support innovation spillover of the region's creative sector, and how can innovations be transferred from other areas to benefit the CDIT sector?