Higher Education and the Creative Economy

Creative Graduates, Knowledge Transfer and Regional Impact Debates

Bibliographic Data

ID5697018
AuthorsRoberta Comunian (0000-0001-8784-8765, King's College London, corresponding author), Abigail Gilmore (0000-0003-0596-6667, University of Manchester), Silvie Jacobi (King's College London)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue7
Pages371-383
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12220
OpenAlexW2129273179
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited36

This paper highlights the growing importance of interdisciplinary research at the intersection between higher education, creative industries and growth of regional creative economies. The paper not only focuses specifically on the UK context but also encompasses issues of further international interest and debate. It undertakes a review of existing literature on the cultural role of higher education institutions (HEIs) and points to recent research on HEIs' increasing importance for embedding creative graduates into a region. We not only illustrate how this area of research aligns with the concepts of the 'creative city' and the 'creative class' but also consider how talent attraction and retention processes include HEIs and art schools as part of a richer understanding of the creative economy as a contextualised production system. Furthermore, we investigate the role of HEIs as so-called 'third spaces' for creative knowledge transfer, which in recent years has become a popular cultural and higher education strategy to address the difficulties of feeding creative and cultural knowledge into the wider economy. The paper concludes by highlighting future avenues for cross-disciplinary research in three areas: communities of practice, local stakeholder management and a shared community agenda, to inform further policy and development in this area

Context (archaeology) · Creative class · Creative industries · Creativity · Discipline · Economics · Geography · Higher education · Knowledge economy · Knowledge transfer · Management · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Stakeholder · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Higher Education Governance and Development

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