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Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative firms, workers, and neighbourhood gentrification Open
We examine links between creative activity and gentrification at the neighbourhood level.These dynamics are both complex and important to understand. Artists may help ‘upgrade’inexpensive neighbourhoods before being displaced, including by…
Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification Open
We examine links between creative activity and gentrification at the neighborhood level. These dynamics are both complex and important to understand. Artists may help upgrade inexpensive neighborhoods before being displaced, including by h…
The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: Open
I wrote yesterday about the problem with Portas Pilots, arguing that the way the scheme was implemented will make it almost impossible to figure out whether the projects actually have an impact. This is just one example of a more general f…
Utilisation of telemedicine in paediatric cardiac emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic: How to set it up, develop and sustain inCollaboration with citizens as stakeholders Open
Introduction The Welsh Paediatric Cardiac Telemedicine Service has been delivering teaching, training, and education for healthcare providers for the past 15 years. In addition, telemedicine has been a fundamental tool for providing emerge…
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities Open
Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surp…
View article: Modeling clusters from the ground up: A web data approach
Modeling clusters from the ground up: A web data approach Open
This paper proposes a new methodological framework to identify economic clusters over space and time. We employ a unique open source dataset of geolocated and archived business webpages and interrogate them using Natural Language Processin…
Critical Commentary: The city and the virus Open
Cities around the world are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic: both in the first wave, as the disease spread from East Asia, and now, as many countries enter a third wave of infections. These spatial patterns are still far from pr…
Economic challenges and success in the post-COVID era: A CAGE Policy Report Open
In 2008 there was an expectation of major reform to social and economic structures following the financial crisis. The European Union (EU) referendum of 2016, and the UK’s subsequent exit from the EU in 2020, was also signalled as a turnin…
Innovative Events: Product launches, innovation and firm performance Open
In this paper, we shed new light on the links between firm-level innovation and growth. We introduce data that capture a difficult-to-observe aspect of firms' innovative activity – new product/service launches – at scale. We show that our …
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities Open
Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surp…
View article: Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach
Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach Open
This paper proposes a new methodological framework to identify economic clusters over space and time. We employ a unique open source dataset of geolocated and archived business webpages and interrogate them using Natural Language Processin…
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development Open
We combine theory and evidence on incubator and accelerator programmes and their effects on urban economic development. These structured co-working programmes have grown rapidly. However, a rich descriptive literature reveals little about …
Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus Open
Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity - but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the urban revival of recent years - or do vaccines herald a return to normality? According t…
Exploring Industry 4.0 production in Sweden Open
Like many industries before it, manufacturing is being 'disrupted' by new technology.This 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' (Schwab, 2017) or 'Industry 4.0' (Brettel et al., 2014) promises substantive productivity and growth effects via the a…
Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme Open
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-diffe…
Creative differences? Measuring creative economy employment in the United States and the UK Open
This paper compares the creative economies of the US and the UK regions and nations using high-quality administrative microdata spanning the period 2011–13. The creative industries are highly urbanized in both countries. However, important…
Linking research and policy for local economies Open
The relationship between research, public policy and local economies is explored in this chapter. The analysis is based on a discussion of how research–policy interactions and challenges play out by exploring a recently established governm…
Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development Open
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators withi…
Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata Open
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find …
Spatial Imaginaries and Tech Cities: Place-branding East London’s digital economy Open
We explore place branding as an economic development strategy for technology clusters, using London’s ‘Tech City’ initiative as a case study. We site place branding in a larger family of policies that develop spatial imaginaries and specif…
Using Crunchbase to explore innovative ecosystems in the US and UK Open
Innovative, high-technology activities are seen as motors of development, with knock-on effects throughout their local economies. Such activities tend to organise networks that span beyond atomized firms, creating ‘ecosystems’ of mutual de…