Hasan Bakhshi

Biographic Data

ID3079822
NAMEHasan Bakhshi
GIVEN NAMESHasan
FAMILY NAMEBakhshi
SIGNATUREBAKHSHI H
AFFILIATIONSNesta
ORCID0000-0002-0643-9925
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Creativity and AI skill demand in the post-ChatGPT labour market

    Open AccessZihan Wang, Aniket Baksy et al.ARTICLERegional Studies2026

    Drawing on over 182 million UK job postings from January 2017 to November 2025, we investigate how the association between demand for creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) skills evolves across UK occupational labour market areas following ChatGPT’s release. Our findings reveal a strengthened positive association between demand for these two skillsets post-ChatGPT, particularly in local labour market areas with a higher share of high-skille…

  • Creative industries research and innovation

    Hua Dong, Hasan Bakhshi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Chinese Art2024

    This conversation piece focuses on the UK–China Creative Industries Research and Innovation Hub project. It explores the opportunities and challenges of collaboration between the two nations, and roles and functions of the future hub. The conversation took the form of a semi-structured interview with individuals from industry, academy, think tank and the government, from both the United Kingdom and China

  • The “Great Lockdown” and cultural consumption in the UK

    Open AccessHasan Bakhshi, Salvatore Di Novo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Economics2023

    In this paper, we exploit a unique weekly longitudinal survey of adults in the UK purposefully collected to study consumption choices with respect to cultural content types during the first Covid-19 national lockdown (the “Great Lockdown”). We look for changes in the probability of consuming different cultural and creative types of content (Music, Movies, TV, Games, Books, Magazines and Audiobooks), as well as changes in the overall variety of co…

  • How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project

    Open AccessHasan BakhshiARTICLEMedia International Australia2022References: 11

    In this short essay, I discuss the challenges in measuring the creative economy and Stuart Cunningham's critical contributions to methodology and scholarship in this area, from his foundational work on the Creative Trident and his influence on the Dynamic Mapping to his ongoing conceptual contributions, as in his work on creative industries as social network markets. These contributions remain vital worldwide today, as controversies continue to r…

  • The economic value of heritage in England

    Open AccessRicky N Lawton, Ricky Lawton et al.ARTICLECity Culture and Society2021

  • Wellbeing and Policy

    Hasan BakhshiARTICLECultural Trends2014

    “This report looks at how the world should measure success in the post-GDP only era.” So states Lord Gus O'Donnell, previously Head of the UK Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary from 2005 to 2011

  • The impact of the “valuing culture” debates in the UK, 2003–2011

    Hasan BakhshiARTICLECultural Trends2012

  • New technologies in cultural institutions

    Hasan Bakhshi, David ThrosbyARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2011Cited by: 10References: 4

    Publicly-funded cultural institutions such as theatre companies, symphony orchestras, museums, libraries and so on are increasingly engaging with new technologies as a means of improving their operational efficiency and extending the range of ways in which they pursue their cultural missions. For example, opera companies are broadcasting performances by satellite to cinemas, and art museums are using the Internet to show virtual exhibitions. Thes…

  • Creative credits

    Hasan Bakhshi, Joshua S Edwards et al.

    This report examines the results of a pilot study, which used a method of evaluation called randomised control trials (RCTs) to see if a popular business support scheme called Creative Credits worked effectively. The pilot study, which began in Manchester in 2009, was structured so that vouchers, or 'Creative Credits', would be randomly allocated to small and medium-sized businesses applying to invest in creative projects such as developing websi…

  • A manifesto for the creative economy

    Hasan Bakhshi, Ian Hargreaves et al.

    The smart phones in our pockets, the tablets on our laps and the laptops on our desks, the software inside them, the web that connects them, and the online platforms built atop all of these, have transformed how we discover and consume creative content and services, and empowered many of us to express our creativity in ways that would have been unthinkable even only a few years ago.

  • Beyond the Creative Industries

    Stuart Cunningham, Peter L Higgs et al.

  • Culture of innovation

    David Throsby, Hasan Bakhshi

  • Arts and humanities research and innovation

    Julie Soden, Hasan Bakhshi et al.

    This paper investigates the role that arts and humanities research plays in the innovation system. Key findings: Arts and humanities research broadens our knowledge and provides new ideas that can be applied directly in innovation. For that research to be valuable, several conditions have to be satisfied, for example: participants must have incentives to create and spread knowledge; and there must be a demand for new knowledge. The Arts and Human…

  • The creative economy and the future of employment

    Hasan Bakhshi, George Windsor

  • Creativity vs robots

    Hasan Bakhshi, Carl Benedikt Frey et al.