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Creative entrepreneurship and skills development in Liverpool City Region (CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy)

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Venue: Online

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Join the Centre for Innovation Management Research on Wednesday 5 October for our online lunchtime seminar: Creative entrepreneurship and skills development in Liverpool City Region. The online debate is part of the CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy series.

With a new government in place, the “levelling up” policy in question, and the government-sponsored Bernstein/Blake Review underway (see links below), this is a good time to critically review the development options in the Liverpool City Region. 

The workshop will take as its starting point prior CIMR workshops on economic growth, skills development and entrepreneurship, such as the event in May 2021 delivered by Professor Maryann P. Feldman and Dr Thomas Kemeny. The key theme will be how to build a self-sustaining and locally generating entrepreneurial culture.  Despite some successes, such as the relocation and expansion of Sony Games in Liverpool, there is some evidence that the attempts to build a self-sustaining “startup culture” are not working as well as they should, and business media continues to highlight the difficulties the Liverpool City Region has in retaining start-ups and tech talent. 

But are we looking in the right places? And, do we know what skills we want to develop for the future? 

The panel will comprise founders, researchers and technologists from the Liverpool City Region, with the hope of exploring the role creative entrepreneurship - and the options for the “horizontal city” as a basis for economic development and social improvement. 

Panel 

  • Alison Pountney, Musician, Creative entrepreneur and Innovation Coach at the University of Liverpool 
  • Dr Dave Tully, owner of Scenegraph, VR/AR game developer and Multiverse researcher, specialising in mental health applications 
  • Dr Andrew Atter, Visiting Fellow CIMR, edtech founder, innovation researcher and psychodynamic coach (Chair)

 

Additional Resources 

Government to set up strategic futures panel to support growth and lead Liverpool to bright future

The Post - Why are companies leaving Liverpool?

Sony to open new 65,000 sq ft Liverpool office

CIMR: Knowledge Economy Cities vs Left Behind Places: Can the Gulf be Narrowed?

 

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