The Cardiff Capital Region and West of England Creative Supercluster: Scoping study

Published in: Fodor, M., Leaver, M., Boswell, M., Lewis, J., Pepper, S., & Bull, D. (2024). The Cardiff Capital Region and West of England Creative Supercluster: Scoping study. Centre for the Creative Economy.

“The combined profiles of the CCR and WoE constitute a creative supercluster of significant scale, comprising 14,500 businesses that employ more than 63,000 full-time staff.”

This joint project is led by Media Cymru and MyWorld: two place-based research, development, and innovation (RD&I) programmes funded by UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Strength in Places Fund (SIPF), led by Cardiff University (CU) and the University of Bristol (UoB) respectively. Building on the insights and outcomes of the UK’s two leading RD&I programmes focussed on the creative economy, its aim is to frame and evaluate the concept of a ‘creative supercluster’ spanning the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) and West of England (WoE), exploring where future collaboration between these buoyant regional creative clusters could unlock new commercial and creative opportunities.

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