Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation an... more Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional competitiveness policy mixes, a complex effect logic and a variety of (mostly intangible) outcomes, and few recognised norms for guiding cluster policy evaluation all hamper a more holistic understanding of their patterns of effects and broader impacts. There lacks a common frame to guide cluster policy evaluation. This paper reviews international evidence on the effects of cluster policy programmes from academic and policy literature, which is then used as an input into a co-creation process with groups of cluster policymakers, practitioners a...
Culture Change is a key delivery theme for Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), in the... more Culture Change is a key delivery theme for Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), in their ambition to support the industry in developing and adopting new approaches to innovation. CSIC were aware of the cultures of innovation capability at the Innovation School at GSA, and so when Scottish Architectural Studio, HAUS, approached the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre to explore how to build their innovation culture, the connection was made with the Innovation School to develop a collaborative project. The key challenge posed by HAUS was to help establish a structured methodology to embed and enhance and support their current innovation culture. HAUS were ambitious in their desire to grow the business nationally and internationally, building on brand recognition to increase their value as a studio within the industry. However, they wished to achieve this growth without compromising the creative studio culture they had established. The innovation challenge of, ‘how to gr...
Capturing the value of engagement and consultation for the public sector, with the communities wi... more Capturing the value of engagement and consultation for the public sector, with the communities with which they work, is both critically important and rare. Constructive, practical and reliable evaluation of consultation is challenging. However, there is an increasing need to better demonstrate the return on investment of such approaches for purposes of transparency, suitability and effectiveness of chosen methods, as well as articulating impact better. Previously, evaluation approaches have followed traditional methods such as surveys, focus groups and interviews. While such approaches are structured and capture key evaluation data, their appeal and effectiveness can suffer from not providing an engaging experience for participants. Also, they risk turning good indicators into definitive targets, which then become unrepresentative under a ‘tyranny of measurements’. So we are exploring the use of evaluation through new frameworks of co-design and consultation. They are intended to ca...
This report from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art shares our perspectives on th... more This report from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art shares our perspectives on the insights and outputs from engagement activities undertaken with winery owners, wine makers, principals and other stakeholders in the industry exploring identity for the UBC-KEDGE Wine Industry Collaboration. The purpose of this engagement activity was to work with the industry to determine how the British Columbia wine region might clarify and unify its identity, so as to position itself on the international scene. This action area brought in expertise from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art to facilitate creative engagement amongst winery representatives. This report summarizes the results of these facilitated discussions and the collective outputs generated by the participants. The outcomes from this report aim to inform ongoing engagement, discussion and collaboration between wineries and industry stakeholders going forward.
Evaluation is undertaken for various reasons from helping to ensure that objectives are met to id... more Evaluation is undertaken for various reasons from helping to ensure that objectives are met to identifying success. This paper examines the significance of creative evaluation in a co-design approach. We have identified a major gap in appropriately embedding evaluation into engagement and consultation processes. The study explores the use of evaluation to evidence the value of co-design and consultation. As a part of this we have established a broad framework to gather information and data to build a portfolio of evidence to evidence the difference we are making. From the initial studies we have identified findings that are significant and shared across our partners within their evaluation practice. Throughout the project, our evaluation is embedded in our process. We have proposed an evaluation process, and an evaluation framework, which will be used at various stages of the project to capture evidence. At each stage we capture the impact in a meaningful format so it is visible to ...
The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construc... more The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construction offers to address the challenges faced by the affordable housing sector in Scotland. Funding for the project is drawn from the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise. The project is made up of three components: - a research project mapping the benefits of offsite construction and the barriers confronting the sector’s potential contribution to affordable housing in Scotland; - a study to understand the current and future capacity of offsite construction to overcome these barriers and for the sector to increase the contribution it makes to the provision of affordable housing in Scotland; - a series of co-design workshops with key stakeholders to consider how offsite construction can overcome the barriers the sector currently faces and realise the potential contribution it can make to the future of affordable housing in Scotland.
This report outlines the findings of the Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study, a 6-month study... more This report outlines the findings of the Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study, a 6-month study of the feasibility of using near ‘real-time’ data collection to capture and communicate people’s lived experiences. Right Here Right Now arose from concerns within the Public Health community about the growing need for more timely information on how current economic and social changes are affecting people’s lives, to better support policy responses. The rapidly-evolving policy landscape also poses challenges for policy-makers and practitioners as traditional methods of evidence-generation cannot keep pace with such rapid developments. RHRN sought to help bridge the gap between data collection and generation of evidence, by testing ways of providing policy-makers with new forms of evidence on the impacts of social and economic changes brought about by welfare reforms, a changing labour market and austerity measures. The vision of RHRN was to establish and run a dynamic data collection, i...
c The Glasgow School of Art Abstract 'Creating Cultures of Innovation' is a unique design... more c The Glasgow School of Art Abstract 'Creating Cultures of Innovation' is a unique design intervention project that works with Scottish businesses to explore how to apply design approaches to transform in-house innovation capacity, boost employees' use of skills, increasing motivation and productivity and providing creative leadership to support collective solution generation. Our research was developed from the findings of the Cox Review (2007) which defined 'Design…, that which links creativity and innovation.' Therefore, our hypothesis was could design act as a vehicle enhance and embed innovative capability in SMEs. This paper is a case study of our work with a Scottish company and our collaboration to understand how we might build the capacity for sustainable innovation, where creativity is permanently embedded in flexible, multi-disciplinary teams. We will discuss key findings exploring and explaining the methodology, approach and give a general insight int...
The concept of geographically concentrated ‘clusters’ of firms, research institutions and other o... more The concept of geographically concentrated ‘clusters’ of firms, research institutions and other organisations became popular in economic development policy circles during the 1990s, following the publication of Michael Porter’s (1990) Competitive Advantage of Nations. Today there is widespread acceptance of the need to design policies that nurture and support cooperative relationships among groups of firms and other agents to boost competitiveness and innovation. Despite the widespread use of cluster policies as cornerstones of regional and national competitiveness policy, there remains a shortage of evaluation research and practice that enable us to understand the impacts of these policies. This is due to the inherent methodological difficulties in evaluating cluster policies, and capturing both direct and indirect impacts. For example, standard evaluation approaches focused on the firm as a single point of measurement risk missing the added value of collaboration core to the clust...
The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., at... more The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., attracted a greater number of papers than any previous conference. The event was intended to highlight the importance of the contribution of design to organisational effectiveness and success, particularly in the ways that it can improve the new product development process, contribute to better strategic thinking and decision-making, and be an important element in the leader¡¦s toolkit. The conference was a means for researchers and thinkers to celebrate the importance of design and to work towards becoming a credible and full participant in the work of organisations. We were proud and deeply honoured to have Professor Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto, as our keynote speaker. He has been an inspirational thinker and one of the foremost and most passionate advocates of the methodologies and thinking of design as important and under-utilised or...
Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation an... more Regions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional competitiveness policy mixes, a complex effect logic and a variety of (mostly intangible) outcomes, and few recognised norms for guiding cluster policy evaluation all hamper a more holistic understanding of their patterns of effects and broader impacts. There lacks a common frame to guide cluster policy evaluation. This paper reviews international evidence on the effects of cluster policy programmes from academic and policy literature, which is then used as an input into a co-creation process with groups of cluster policymakers, practitioners a...
Culture Change is a key delivery theme for Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), in the... more Culture Change is a key delivery theme for Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), in their ambition to support the industry in developing and adopting new approaches to innovation. CSIC were aware of the cultures of innovation capability at the Innovation School at GSA, and so when Scottish Architectural Studio, HAUS, approached the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre to explore how to build their innovation culture, the connection was made with the Innovation School to develop a collaborative project. The key challenge posed by HAUS was to help establish a structured methodology to embed and enhance and support their current innovation culture. HAUS were ambitious in their desire to grow the business nationally and internationally, building on brand recognition to increase their value as a studio within the industry. However, they wished to achieve this growth without compromising the creative studio culture they had established. The innovation challenge of, ‘how to gr...
Capturing the value of engagement and consultation for the public sector, with the communities wi... more Capturing the value of engagement and consultation for the public sector, with the communities with which they work, is both critically important and rare. Constructive, practical and reliable evaluation of consultation is challenging. However, there is an increasing need to better demonstrate the return on investment of such approaches for purposes of transparency, suitability and effectiveness of chosen methods, as well as articulating impact better. Previously, evaluation approaches have followed traditional methods such as surveys, focus groups and interviews. While such approaches are structured and capture key evaluation data, their appeal and effectiveness can suffer from not providing an engaging experience for participants. Also, they risk turning good indicators into definitive targets, which then become unrepresentative under a ‘tyranny of measurements’. So we are exploring the use of evaluation through new frameworks of co-design and consultation. They are intended to ca...
This report from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art shares our perspectives on th... more This report from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art shares our perspectives on the insights and outputs from engagement activities undertaken with winery owners, wine makers, principals and other stakeholders in the industry exploring identity for the UBC-KEDGE Wine Industry Collaboration. The purpose of this engagement activity was to work with the industry to determine how the British Columbia wine region might clarify and unify its identity, so as to position itself on the international scene. This action area brought in expertise from The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art to facilitate creative engagement amongst winery representatives. This report summarizes the results of these facilitated discussions and the collective outputs generated by the participants. The outcomes from this report aim to inform ongoing engagement, discussion and collaboration between wineries and industry stakeholders going forward.
Evaluation is undertaken for various reasons from helping to ensure that objectives are met to id... more Evaluation is undertaken for various reasons from helping to ensure that objectives are met to identifying success. This paper examines the significance of creative evaluation in a co-design approach. We have identified a major gap in appropriately embedding evaluation into engagement and consultation processes. The study explores the use of evaluation to evidence the value of co-design and consultation. As a part of this we have established a broad framework to gather information and data to build a portfolio of evidence to evidence the difference we are making. From the initial studies we have identified findings that are significant and shared across our partners within their evaluation practice. Throughout the project, our evaluation is embedded in our process. We have proposed an evaluation process, and an evaluation framework, which will be used at various stages of the project to capture evidence. At each stage we capture the impact in a meaningful format so it is visible to ...
The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construc... more The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construction offers to address the challenges faced by the affordable housing sector in Scotland. Funding for the project is drawn from the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise. The project is made up of three components: - a research project mapping the benefits of offsite construction and the barriers confronting the sector’s potential contribution to affordable housing in Scotland; - a study to understand the current and future capacity of offsite construction to overcome these barriers and for the sector to increase the contribution it makes to the provision of affordable housing in Scotland; - a series of co-design workshops with key stakeholders to consider how offsite construction can overcome the barriers the sector currently faces and realise the potential contribution it can make to the future of affordable housing in Scotland.
This report outlines the findings of the Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study, a 6-month study... more This report outlines the findings of the Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study, a 6-month study of the feasibility of using near ‘real-time’ data collection to capture and communicate people’s lived experiences. Right Here Right Now arose from concerns within the Public Health community about the growing need for more timely information on how current economic and social changes are affecting people’s lives, to better support policy responses. The rapidly-evolving policy landscape also poses challenges for policy-makers and practitioners as traditional methods of evidence-generation cannot keep pace with such rapid developments. RHRN sought to help bridge the gap between data collection and generation of evidence, by testing ways of providing policy-makers with new forms of evidence on the impacts of social and economic changes brought about by welfare reforms, a changing labour market and austerity measures. The vision of RHRN was to establish and run a dynamic data collection, i...
c The Glasgow School of Art Abstract 'Creating Cultures of Innovation' is a unique design... more c The Glasgow School of Art Abstract 'Creating Cultures of Innovation' is a unique design intervention project that works with Scottish businesses to explore how to apply design approaches to transform in-house innovation capacity, boost employees' use of skills, increasing motivation and productivity and providing creative leadership to support collective solution generation. Our research was developed from the findings of the Cox Review (2007) which defined 'Design…, that which links creativity and innovation.' Therefore, our hypothesis was could design act as a vehicle enhance and embed innovative capability in SMEs. This paper is a case study of our work with a Scottish company and our collaboration to understand how we might build the capacity for sustainable innovation, where creativity is permanently embedded in flexible, multi-disciplinary teams. We will discuss key findings exploring and explaining the methodology, approach and give a general insight int...
The concept of geographically concentrated ‘clusters’ of firms, research institutions and other o... more The concept of geographically concentrated ‘clusters’ of firms, research institutions and other organisations became popular in economic development policy circles during the 1990s, following the publication of Michael Porter’s (1990) Competitive Advantage of Nations. Today there is widespread acceptance of the need to design policies that nurture and support cooperative relationships among groups of firms and other agents to boost competitiveness and innovation. Despite the widespread use of cluster policies as cornerstones of regional and national competitiveness policy, there remains a shortage of evaluation research and practice that enable us to understand the impacts of these policies. This is due to the inherent methodological difficulties in evaluating cluster policies, and capturing both direct and indirect impacts. For example, standard evaluation approaches focused on the firm as a single point of measurement risk missing the added value of collaboration core to the clust...
The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., at... more The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., attracted a greater number of papers than any previous conference. The event was intended to highlight the importance of the contribution of design to organisational effectiveness and success, particularly in the ways that it can improve the new product development process, contribute to better strategic thinking and decision-making, and be an important element in the leader¡¦s toolkit. The conference was a means for researchers and thinkers to celebrate the importance of design and to work towards becoming a credible and full participant in the work of organisations. We were proud and deeply honoured to have Professor Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto, as our keynote speaker. He has been an inspirational thinker and one of the foremost and most passionate advocates of the methodologies and thinking of design as important and under-utilised or...
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