Open Workshop: Measuring Innovation Clusters — The Cambridge Experience

Clusters of innovative, knowledge intensive businesses are regarded as a major driver of economic growth and societal wellbeing. However, economics scholars have historically faced challenges when seeking to capture the scale of innovation clusters and their role in driving wider economic and societal outcomes, hindering progress in this important field of enquiry.

This workshop will present some insights from the research carried out by the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at the University of Cambridge to measure the scale, composition and growth rate of economic activity of innovation clusters.

There will be an opportunity for participants to learn more about specific research projects carried out by the CBR, including ongoing work on the benefits of successful collaboration between the public and private sectors to enhance business growth and clustering.

Speaker Dr Giorgio Caselli is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.