Knowledge Bank
Welcome to our dedicated innovation resource, that provides easy access to a wide range of information relating to Innovation, the Knowledge Economy, creativity, and Greater Manchester.
What can you find on the Knowledge Bank?
Reports, strategies, policies, articles, thought and opinion pieces, urls to interesting websites, audio and visual content.
How does the Knowledge Bank work?
There are several ways to find what you are looking for.
- Browse using our tagging system – all items are categorised by a series of subject tags that relate to the item
- The search facility will search titles and key words within the title but will not search the document itself*
NB: The views and comments expressed in the Knowledge Bank content, are that of the author(s) alone and are not necessarily the views or opinions of M:KC or its staff.
The Times - Smart Cities Supplement
Cities are home to more than half the world, but they need to change hugely if they are to continue to survive writes Mike Scott in this Smart Cities supplement which ...
Original-Ventures Blog
Blog from Original Ventures, Clare O'Neill
RAW 2010 Building Partnerships for Innovation presentations
On 12 May 2010, entrepreneurs across the North West took part in the successful Building Partnerships for Innovation event which was hosted by Manchester: Knowledge Ca...
The Innovation Manchester Boardroom Paper
This paper gives you some the thinking behind the Innovation Manchester Boardroom – the theory of how connectivity impacts on innovation, how M:KC will make the Boardr...
Innovation in UK Cities - NESTA
The UK’s cities form spikes of innovation in an otherwise flat world. Our cities need innovation strategies tailored to their unique strengths and weaknesses, but comp...
The Innovation Index - NESTA
The aim of the Innovation Index project is to provide a basis for better policymaking about innovation by developing and deploying significantly improved measures of i...
Hidden Innovation - NESTA
Innovation is essential to ensuring the UK’s future economic competitiveness and social wellbeing. But there is a gulf between how innovation happens and how pol...
NESTA policy papers
http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications NESTA is the UK government’s innovation agency and this is an immensely useful site for information and insight on what is c...