Research reports
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Hidden innovation in the creative industries
This research uses the tools of ‘traditional’ innovation research to explore, analyse and compare innovation in four sectors that are critical to the UK’s creative future.
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The New Inventors: How users are changing the rules of innovation
This report sets out a way of understanding user-led innovation.
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History Matters: Path dependence and innovation in British city-regions
Individual policy interventions are likely to have little impact on economic development if they do not take into account previous economic structures and their legacy.
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Selling sustainability report
Climate change is by definition a global problem, but one that requires each nation, each individual to take their share of responsibility – and more importantly, to take action.
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Total innovation report
This report examines why harnessing the hidden innovation in high-technology sectors is crucial to retaining the UK’s innovation edge.
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Taking services seriously
This report examines how we can help our services firms to become more innovative and more productive.
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Creating Innovation
This report presents the results of major new research into the role of the creative industries in stimulating and supporting innovation in the UK.
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Beyond the creative industries
This report complements existing work by DCMS and others and seeks to improve on the available data about the true extent of creative activity within the economy.
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Transformers
Our Transformers Report explores why some places innovate more effectively than others.
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Rural innovation report
These Rural Innovation collection of essays examines the social, economic and technological changes that are affecting rural areas and what these changes mean for innovation.
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Leading innovation report
The innovation potential of the UK's 'ordinary regions' can only be unlocked through well-developed and realistic plans that play to their individual strengths.
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Innovation and the City report
Innovation and the City explores the ways in which people, firms and organisations contribute to innovation within cities and presents two interlocking models for innovation in urban areas.
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In and Out of Sync
This report is about how private and third sector organisations innovate to respond to social needs. It seeks to explain why certain social innovations grow and why others don't.
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The Disrupters
This report is about how private and third sector organisations innovate to respond to social needs. It seeks to explain why certain social innovations grow and why others don't.
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Hidden innovation report
Innovation is essential to ensuring the UK's future economic competitiveness and social wellbeing. But in our October 2006 report The Innovation Gap, we identified a gulf between how innovation happens and how policy supports it.
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Creating Entrepreneurship
This, the first large-scale study of its kind within higher education for the creative industries for more than 70 years, has been conducted in partnership with the Higher Education Academy.
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Innovation gap report
This report seeks to clarify where innovation happens in the UK, the usefulness of our current indicators, and the new policy and metrics necessary for us to maximise the UK’s capacity for innovation.
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Creating growth
'Creating growth: How the UK can develop world-class creative businesses’ is an in-depth analysis of the current challenges facing the UK's creative industries.
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Survey of Creative Businesses
This survey reveals there is a lack of private investment and insufficient business support and development services for creative businesses in the UK.
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Real Science report
The report makes the case that innovative approaches to experimental and investigative science learning should be at the core of science education in the UK.
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Creating value: How the UK can invest in new creative businesses
This report aims to achieve changes in both attitudes and practice by sharing learning, working collaboratively with other interested parties and thinking imaginatively.
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Investing in the creative industries report
This report argues that there is potential for creative businesses to demonstrate their potential so that private investors can gain more intelligence about the sector.