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Workplace tours and the cultural production of flexibility 工作场所旅游和文化生产的灵活性

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100671

Lizzie Richardson

Tours of offices in English cities for those who are not working in them have risen in popularity since the growth of co-working spaces in the 2010s. In contrast to workplace tours of industrial sites, in these contemporary office tours the tourist is neither clearly distinct from the worker, nor are they necessarily undertaking the tour to see work taking place. The contemporary office tour therefore enacts a process of “de-differentiation” between work and leisure spaces. Yet simultaneously though and somewhat countering this thesis of de-differentiation, it is flexibility that is the attraction displayed in these office tours, understood as the capacities to make micro-distinctions in activity in a given space. Contemporary office tours frequently stage a proximity and even interchangeability between work and leisure, one that highlights abilities to both make and dissolve the boundaries between the two, creating a flexible workplace structure that has been typically associated with urban cultural economies that foreground entrepreneurialism and passion for work. The article argues though that office flexibility is itself part of processes of urban cultural production that are intended to create value both within and beyond the work in the office itself. The production of flexibility in the office tour is an indicator of contemporary urban cultural economies in which value is produced in the present through the promise of future adaptable usage of space.

自2010年代联合办公空间兴起以来，在英国城市的办公室里，那些不在办公室里工作的人越来越受欢迎。与工业场所的工作场所之旅相反，在这些现代办公室之旅中，游客与工人既没有明显的区别，他们也不一定是为了看工作而来的。因此，当代办公室之旅在工作和休闲空间之间建立了一个“去分化”的过程。然而，与此同时，尽管在某种程度上反驳了这种去差异化的论点，但灵活性才是这些办公室之旅所展示的吸引力，被理解为在给定空间的活动中制造微观差异的能力。当代办公室之旅经常在工作和休闲之间进行接近甚至互换，这突出了两者之间建立和消除界限的能力，创造了一个灵活的工作场所结构，这种结构通常与城市文化经济有关，前景是创业精神和工作热情。文章认为，办公室的灵活性本身就是城市文化生产过程的一部分，旨在在办公室本身的工作内外创造价值。办公室旅游中灵活性的产生是当代城市文化经济的一个指标，其中价值是通过对未来空间适应性使用的承诺在当前产生的。

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What's gained, what's lost? The paradox of using land value capture to fund arts spaces in Vancouver 得到了什么，失去了什么？利用土地价值捕获来资助温哥华艺术空间的悖论

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100651

Zachary Hyde

In recent years local governments in expensive cities have attempted to offset the displacement of arts spaces by funding new cultural infrastructure. One of the key policy tools they have turned to is land value capture, which allows greater height and density on new high-rise developments in exchange for social benefits. This study takes up the case of Vancouver, Canada where land value capture has been used to fund the arts through the city's Community Amenity Contributions (CAC) program. To examine the impact and evolution of Vancouver's CAC program, I use qualitative case studies of three major redevelopments in the 2010 decade that leveraged CACs to fund the arts, alongside planning documents and community reports. My findings show that the city helped arts organizations secure increasingly stable infrastructure, approving funding to purchase their buildings, cover long-term operating costs, and to build artist housing through a community land trust. At the same time, the arts community reported a significant loss of space in the private market, often in areas experiencing intense development pressure. Through the case of Vancouver, I show that land value capture leads to a paradoxical outcome—the same policy mechanism that protects artists from the market, relies on increasing property values that contribute to arts displacement. I conclude by suggesting that land value capture should be paired with protective policies for arts spaces that intervene on real estate speculation to avoid a net loss.

近年来，昂贵城市的地方政府试图通过资助新的文化基础设施来弥补艺术空间的流失。他们转向的一个关键政策工具是土地价值获取，它允许新的高层开发项目增加高度和密度，以换取社会效益。本研究以加拿大温哥华为例，通过该市的社区福利捐款（CAC）计划，土地价值被用于资助艺术。为了研究温哥华CAC计划的影响和演变，我使用了2010年十年中利用CAC为艺术提供资金的三个主要重建项目的定性案例研究，以及规划文件和社区报告。我的研究结果表明，纽约市帮助艺术组织确保了越来越稳定的基础设施，批准了购买其建筑的资金，支付了长期运营成本，并通过社区土地信托基金建造了艺术家住房。与此同时，艺术界报告称，私人市场的空间严重流失，通常是在面临巨大发展压力的地区。通过温哥华的案例，我展示了土地价值捕获导致了一个矛盾的结果——同样的政策机制，保护艺术家免受市场的影响，依赖于增加的财产价值，这导致了艺术的转移。我的结论是，土地价值的获取应该与艺术空间的保护政策相结合，干预房地产投机，以避免净损失。

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Entrepreneurial capability? Understanding the resources needed for sustainable cultural and creative entrepreneurship in cities. A case study of Enschede, The Netherlands 创业能力?了解城市可持续文化和创意创业所需的资源。以荷兰恩斯赫德为例

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100672

Tamsyn Dent, Roberta Comunian, Sana Kim

What sustains creative and cultural entrepreneurship in a city? This paper questions the sustainability of urban policies focused on attracting knowledge-based human capital as a strategy to foster entrepreneurial and creative-driven growth. It acknowledges that the literature on entrepreneurial cities, while connecting with the creative city approach, has commonly imposed growth-led agendas without fully considering the local cultural infrastructure, including creative practices, amenities and the wider resources that enable citizen engagement. Using the capability approach, the paper considers what resources and opportunities are available, and to whom, within a specific urban location to facilitate sustainable creative and cultural entrepreneurship. Based on research conducted in the Dutch city of Enschede, we explore how resources for sustainable creative and entrepreneurial development are fostered at the local policy level. Drawing on qualitative data collected from a wide range of citizens; the paper questions the sustainability of policies focused on expanding higher education and the commercially oriented creative industries in order to foster regional entrepreneurial activity. We conclude that a better understanding of how citizens can be empowered to engage with the city's creative and cultural entrepreneurship might offer more fruitful and sustainable results.

是什么支撑着一个城市的创意和文化创业？本文对将吸引知识型人力资本作为促进创业和创意驱动型增长战略的城市政策的可持续性提出了质疑。报告承认，关于创业型城市的文献虽然与创意型城市的方法相联系，但通常在没有充分考虑当地文化基础设施（包括创意实践、便利设施和使公民参与的更广泛资源）的情况下，强加了以增长为主导的议程。利用能力方法，本文考虑了在特定的城市位置，哪些资源和机会是可用的，以及谁可以获得，以促进可持续的创意和文化创业。基于在荷兰恩斯赫德市进行的研究，我们探讨了如何在地方政策层面培育可持续创新和创业发展的资源。利用从广泛的公民中收集的定性数据；本文对旨在扩大高等教育和以商业为导向的创意产业以促进区域创业活动的政策的可持续性提出了质疑。我们的结论是，更好地理解公民如何能够被授权参与城市的创意和文化创业，可能会带来更富有成效和可持续的结果。

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Rethinking innovation in creative clusters 重新思考创意集群中的创新

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100669

Justin Lewis

The article draws upon an analysis of Clwstwr - a place-based innovation programme for the creative and cultural sectors and industries. Clwstwr attempted to shift power away from large cultural conglomerates towards local, smaller independent companies, while tackling issues such as environmental sustainability, diversity and inclusion.

The article argues that universities are well placed to be active cultural intermediaries in this form of critically-informed cluster-building. To make this case, this article will propose moving beyond the current dichotomy between a focus on/celebration of the economic power of the CCSIs - the dominant strain in policy circles - and an anti-economic critique that stresses cultural and social values – an increasingly dominant strain in the academy.

Using findings from the Clwstwr programme, it demonstrates how universities were able to:

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Draw on a critical literature of the market-based model of the CCSIs to develop alternative economic models of innovation, designed to improve social, cultural and economic outcomes.
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Leverage research and innovation expertise in a sector dominated by small companies and freelancers.

This enabled small creative companies in the Welsh creative cluster to develop and grow, economically and culturally, while promoting equality, diversity and inclusion and environmental sustainability.

本文借鉴了对Clwstwr的分析，Clwstwr是一个为创意和文化部门和行业提供的基于地方的创新计划。Clwstwr试图将权力从大型文化集团转移到当地较小的独立公司，同时解决环境可持续性、多样性和包容性等问题。这篇文章认为，在这种具有批判性知识的集群建设形式中，大学处于积极的文化中介地位。为了证明这一点，本文将提出超越目前的二分法，即关注/庆祝ccsi的经济力量-政策圈的主导流派-和强调文化和社会价值的反经济批评-学术界日益占主导地位的流派。利用Clwstwr项目的研究结果，它展示了大学如何能够：•利用ccsi的市场模型的关键文献来开发创新的替代经济模型，旨在改善社会，文化和经济成果。•利用由小公司和自由职业者主导的行业的研究和创新专业知识。这使得威尔士创意集群中的小型创意公司能够在经济和文化上发展壮大，同时促进平等、多样性、包容性和环境可持续性。

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From the creative city to the city of cultural rights. Analysing inequalities and diversity in the right to participate in urban cultural life. The case of Barcelona 从创意城市到文化权利之城。分析参与城市文化生活权利的不平等和多样性。巴塞罗那的案例

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100668

Artur Rubinat-i-Lacuesta , Roger Soler-i-Martí , Nicolás Barbieri Muttis

Recent empirical evidence within the framework of the creative city has reproduced a narrow view of cultural participation. To better understand diversity and new and more complex logics of inequalities, this paper proposes an alternative multidimensional framework: the right to participate in urban cultural life. Using data from the Survey of Cultural Rights of Barcelona (2022), we analyse evidence of not only cultural access, but also the dimensions of practice, community engagement and governance, including both legitimate and non-legitimate cultural activities. This study considers how relevant are individual socioeconomic and spatial factors in explaining inequalities and diversity in the right to participate in urban cultural life. We conclude firstly that, as previous research has shown, socioeconomic individual resources (such as education) play a significant role in explaining inequalities in levels of participation in legitimate culture. The impact of these factors is significantly reduced when community and governance dimensions, and above all, non-legitimate cultural activities are considered. Second, neighbourhood has its own role in explaining inequalities and diversity. Being from a well-off neighbourhood is more related to accessing legitimate culture but less related to non-legitimate cultural activity and other cultural rights dimensions.

在创意城市的框架内，最近的经验证据再现了文化参与的狭隘观点。为了更好地理解多样性和新的、更复杂的不平等逻辑，本文提出了另一个多维框架：参与城市文化生活的权利。利用巴塞罗那文化权利调查（2022年）的数据，我们不仅分析了文化获取的证据，还分析了实践、社区参与和治理的维度，包括合法和非合法的文化活动。本研究考虑了个人社会经济和空间因素在解释参与城市文化生活权利的不平等和多样性方面的相关性。我们首先得出的结论是，正如之前的研究表明的那样，社会经济个体资源（如教育）在解释合法文化参与水平的不平等方面发挥了重要作用。当考虑到社区和治理维度，尤其是非合法文化活动时，这些因素的影响大大减少。其次，邻里关系在解释不平等和多样性方面发挥着自己的作用。来自小康社区与获得合法文化的关系更大，而与非合法文化活动和其他文化权利维度的关系较小。

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Universities as innovation agents for the creative industries – An exploratory quantitative study from Wales 大学作为创意产业的创新代理人——一项来自威尔士的探索性定量研究

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100670

Komorowski Marlen , Fodor Máté Miklós

Universities are increasingly recognized as key actors in regional innovation ecosystems, yet their role as “innovation agents” for the creative industries remains underexplored. While previous scholarship highlights universities’ contributions through research, skills provision, and technology transfer, little empirical evidence exists on how they amplify the innovation capacity of creative firms. This article addresses this gap through an exploratory quantitative study of 385 firms in Wales, drawing on data from the Clwstwr programme (2019–2021), a university-led initiative. We develop an analytical framework focusing on four major innovation drivers - skills and knowledge, networking, training, and funding - and examine whether university engagement enhances their effect on firm innovativeness. Employing econometric modelling, we find that firms engaged with the university exhibit significantly stronger relationships between each driver and overall innovativeness than firms outside the university-programme. Notably, university engagement magnifies the marginal effects of networking, training, and funding on innovativeness, with funding showing particularly large gains. These results provide novel evidence that universities can act as effective innovation agents, going beyond traditional roles of knowledge creation to actively shape firm-level innovation processes in the creative industries. The findings have implications for firms, which can leverage university partnerships to strengthen innovation outcomes; for universities, which can expand their role in local creative economies; and for policymakers, who can design targeted support mechanisms to embed universities within regional innovation strategies. By situating the Welsh case within broader debates on creative clusters and university–industry collaboration, this study contributes to understanding how universities drive innovation in under-researched sectors such as the creative industries.

大学越来越被认为是区域创新生态系统中的关键角色，但它们作为创意产业“创新代理人”的作用仍未得到充分发掘。虽然以前的学术研究强调了大学在研究、技能提供和技术转让方面的贡献，但很少有实证证据表明大学如何增强创新型企业的创新能力。本文通过对威尔士385家公司进行探索性定量研究，利用大学主导的Clwstwr计划（2019-2021）的数据，解决了这一差距。我们开发了一个分析框架，重点关注四个主要的创新驱动因素——技能和知识、网络、培训和资金——并研究大学参与是否会增强它们对企业创新的影响。采用计量经济模型，我们发现与大学合作的企业在每个驱动因素与整体创新之间的关系明显强于非大学项目的企业。值得注意的是，大学参与放大了网络、培训和资助对创新的边际效应，其中资助显示出特别大的收益。这些结果提供了新的证据，表明大学可以作为有效的创新代理人，超越传统的知识创造角色，积极塑造创意产业中企业层面的创新过程。研究结果对企业具有启示意义，企业可以利用大学伙伴关系来加强创新成果；对大学来说，这可以扩大它们在当地创意经济中的作用；对于决策者来说，他们可以设计有针对性的支持机制，将大学纳入区域创新战略。通过将威尔士案例置于更广泛的关于创意集群和大学-产业合作的辩论中，本研究有助于理解大学如何在创意产业等研究不足的领域推动创新。

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Creative Informatics: the role of ‘the university’ in Edinburgh and South East Scotland's creative cluster 创意信息学：“大学”在爱丁堡和东南苏格兰创意集群中的作用

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100664

Vikki Jones, Inge Panneels, Frauke Zeller, Melissa Terras, Nicola Osborne

This positioning paper reflects on the idea of ‘the university’ as a creative industries intermediary, through a case study of the Creative Informatics programme. It asks where ‘the university’ fits within the context of the creative industries and creative economy, and its value in that ecosystem. Creative Informatics was a five-year R&D programme (2018–2024), part of the UK-wide Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to encourage innovation in and through the creative industries. The programme was a partnership between two universities, The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University; creative industries support organisation Creative Edinburgh; and startup incubator Codebase. Creative Informatics leveraged and mediated university structures, while also attempting to position itself as embedded in the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland ‘Cluster’ through its networked relationships with non-academic partners. As well as funding creative industries activity, the programme included supporting activities designed to develop and maintain connections between practitioners and organisations, beyond the time-limited operation of the CICP. As such, this paper frames Creative Informatics as a temporary organisation and creative industries intermediary that operates both within and without the permanent construct of ‘the university’ and asks what happens next to the community of creative practitioners it has supported. In considering these intermediaries through the lens of a value constellation, this paper explores if and how the balance of power between cities and regions were challenged by or reproduced through the CICP.

这篇定位论文通过对创意信息学项目的案例研究，反映了“大学”作为创意产业中介的理念。它询问了“大学”在创意产业和创意经济的背景下的位置，以及它在这个生态系统中的价值。创意信息学是一个为期五年的研发计划（2018-2024），是由英国艺术与人文研究委员会（AHRC）资助的全英国创意产业集群计划（CICP）的一部分，旨在鼓励创意产业中的创新。该项目是爱丁堡大学和爱丁堡纳皮尔大学这两所大学的合作项目；创意产业支援机构creative Edinburgh；和创业孵化器Codebase。Creative Informatics利用和调解大学结构，同时也试图通过与非学术合作伙伴的网络关系，将自己定位为嵌入爱丁堡和苏格兰东南部的“集群”。除了资助创意产业活动外，该计划还包括支持旨在发展和维持业界人士与机构之间联系的活动，这些活动是在中心有限的运作时间之外进行的。因此，本文将创意信息学作为一个临时组织和创意产业中介，在“大学”的永久结构内外运作，并询问它所支持的创意从业者社区接下来会发生什么。在通过价值星座的视角来考虑这些中介时，本文探讨了城市和地区之间的权力平衡是否以及如何受到CICP的挑战或通过CICP再现。

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Social infrastructures of mobility: Relational encounters between foreign and local digital nomads in the Philippines 流动的社会基础设施：菲律宾外国和本地数字游民之间的关系遭遇

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100667

Cheryll Ruth Soriano , Jeremy Tintiangko , Joy Hannah Panaligan

Over the past decade, scholarship on digital nomadism and co-working spaces has grown substantially, with much of it focused on the socio-technical infrastructures that enable remote workers—especially from the Global North—to pursue mobility and leisure in the Global South. In the Philippines, this global trend intersects with local dynamics. While the state promotes policies to attract foreign digital nomads and builds a cultural economy around their presence, digital nomadism is also emerging as an appealing path for Filipino online freelancers. As one of the world’s largest providers of labor to cloudwork platforms, the Philippines offers a critical vantage point for understanding how digital nomadism is locally practiced and reimagined, and the dynamics of their social relations. This paper explores the social infrastructures -- both lifestyle and transactional -- that sustain and are shaped by the interactions between foreign and local digital nomads in the Philippines. It pays attention to the racialized and classed dynamics that structure these communities, revealing how global mobility and local precarity coexist in shared spaces. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Filipino digital nomads, field observations in physical hubs across the country, and analysis of digital nomad content on social media, this study contributes to broader conversations on the socio-technical ecosystems underpinning digital labor.

在过去的十年里，关于数字游牧和共同工作空间的学术研究有了实质性的增长，其中大部分集中在社会技术基础设施上，这些基础设施使远程工作者——尤其是来自全球北方的工作者——能够在全球南方追求流动性和休闲。在菲律宾，这种全球趋势与当地动态相互交织。当政府推行政策吸引外国数字游民，并围绕他们的存在建立文化经济时，数字游民也逐渐成为菲律宾在线自由职业者的吸引力之路。作为世界上最大的云工作平台劳动力提供者之一，菲律宾为了解数字游牧主义在当地的实践和重新想象以及他们的社会关系的动态提供了一个关键的有利位置。本文探讨了菲律宾外国和当地数字游牧民之间的互动所维持和塑造的社会基础设施——生活方式和交易方式。它关注构成这些社区的种族化和阶级化动态，揭示了全球流动性和地方不稳定性如何在共享空间中共存。通过对菲律宾数字游牧民的民族志采访、对全国各地物理中心的实地观察以及对社交媒体上数字游牧民内容的分析，本研究有助于就支撑数字劳动的社会技术生态系统进行更广泛的对话。

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Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona 不同和不平等城市的社会基础设施：考察巴塞罗那的市政管理设施

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100666

Marina Pera

This article offers a nuanced exploration of the notion of social infrastructure and its capacity to foster encounters and strengthen social ties in urban contexts. Focusing on Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona—municipally owned and funded spaces managed by local non-profit associations that offer cultural, youth, and leisure activities accessible to all residents—this study examines their potential as central neighbourhood hubs. It addresses the gap in understanding how these facilities enable spaces of encounter in contexts characterised by social fragmentation, inequality, and diversity. Employing a mixed-methods case study approach, the findings reveal how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the use of Civic Management Facilities, often resulting in the underrepresentation of neighbourhood diversity. The study underscores the importance of agency in enhancing inclusive participation by vulnerable groups within social infrastructures. Facility managers, through sustained efforts, implement mechanisms to promote user diversity and cultivate public familiarity—understood as the recognition of the facility and unfamiliar individuals as integral parts of the community. By analysing the relational dimension of social infrastructure, this research provides a deeper understanding of how these spaces can promote encounters and inclusion in urban settings marked by inequality and socio-cultural diversity.

本文对社会基础设施的概念及其在城市环境中促进相遇和加强社会联系的能力进行了细致入微的探索。关注巴塞罗那的市政管理设施——由当地非营利协会管理的市政拥有和资助的空间，为所有居民提供文化、青年和休闲活动——本研究考察了它们作为中心社区枢纽的潜力。它解决了在理解这些设施如何在以社会分裂、不平等和多样性为特征的背景下实现相遇空间的差距。采用混合方法的案例研究方法，研究结果揭示了社会不平等和权力动态如何影响公民管理设施的使用，往往导致社区多样性的代表性不足。该研究强调了机构在加强弱势群体在社会基础设施中的包容性参与方面的重要性。设施管理人员通过持续的努力，实施促进用户多样性和培养公众熟悉度的机制，即承认设施和不熟悉的个人是社区不可分割的一部分。通过分析社会基础设施的关系维度，本研究更深入地了解了这些空间如何在以不平等和社会文化多样性为特征的城市环境中促进相遇和包容。

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Transitioning from STEM to STEAM engagement mechanisms: a Yorkshire-based creative industry collaborative ecosystem approach for fashion and textiles 从STEM到STEAM参与机制的过渡：基于约克郡的时尚和纺织品创意产业协作生态系统方法

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100665

Susan Rainton , Kevin Almond

This paper adopts a reflective practice methodology, outlining how the Future Fashion Factory award stimulated sectoral activity, facilitating innovative collaborations and delivering regional impact. FFF built on decades of academic collaboration and long-standing relationships with both industry and local/regional government, it brought regional initiatives together to enable new activity and raise the profile of existing collaborations. In this context the University of Leeds, along with HEI partners, acted as a broker for innovation connectivity and change. It contrasts the Future Fashion Factory ecosystem with previous Yorkshire-based cluster programmes which had a STEM-based foundation for their interventions, reflecting differences in funding mechanisms and outcome monitoring. Fashion and textiles are a significant regional economic contributor, value chains are complex, integrating creativity with materials and advanced manufacturing requiring the delivery of STEAM-based interventions. Mills in the Yorkshire's ‘textile heartland’ are globally recognised, some exporting c.90 % of their total production. In January 2020 Future Fashion Factory supported the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP) visit, facilitating academic connectivity with Leeds City Council and a visit to AW Hainsworth & Sons Ltd; one of many collaborative initiatives. Over five-years Future Fashion Factory has worked extensively with regional and national bodies to maximise learning, impact and future opportunities. Since October 2018 it has developed and trialled several iterations of an industry-led Responsive R&D process. Focused on regional cluster support Future Fashion Factory recognised fashion and textiles as a national/international collection of complex, interlocking eco-systems. Future Fashion Factory network membership focused on regional connectivity but with UK-wide industrial participation; project awards always ensured direct cluster impact. Learning developed from this industry-led approach led to wide-ranging engagement activity and triggered c.450 innovation ideas and c.£47m co-investment.

本文采用了一种反思的实践方法，概述了未来时尚工厂奖如何刺激部门活动，促进创新合作并产生区域影响。FFF建立在数十年的学术合作以及与行业和地方/地区政府的长期合作关系的基础上，它将区域倡议整合在一起，以实现新的活动并提高现有合作的知名度。在这种情况下，利兹大学与HEI合作伙伴一起充当了创新、连接和变革的中间人。它将未来时装工厂生态系统与以前基于约克郡的集群计划进行了对比，这些计划的干预措施基于stem，反映了筹资机制和结果监测的差异。时尚和纺织品是一个重要的区域经济贡献者，价值链是复杂的，将创造力与材料和先进制造结合起来，需要提供基于steam的干预措施。位于约克郡“纺织中心”的工厂是全球公认的，其中一些出口占其总产量的90%。2020年1月，Future Fashion Factory支持麻省理工学院区域创业加速计划（MIT REAP）访问，促进了与利兹市议会的学术联系，并访问了AW Hainsworth & & Sons Ltd .；许多协作计划之一。五年来，未来时尚工厂与地区和国家机构广泛合作，最大限度地提高学习、影响和未来机会。自2018年10月以来，它已经开发并试用了几次行业领先的响应式研发流程。未来时尚工厂专注于区域集群支持，将时尚和纺织品视为一个复杂的、环环相扣的生态系统的国家/国际集合。未来时装工厂网络成员关注区域连通性，但与全英国的工业参与；项目奖励总是确保直接影响集群。从这种以行业为主导的方法中获得的经验，导致了广泛的参与活动，引发了450个创新想法和4700万英镑的共同投资。

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