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The Capitalising on Creativity programme was designed to enhance collaborative research and knowledge sharing between creative and cultural industries and higher education institutions in Scotland. The programme has enabled the involvement of 58 students, academics and associate researchers; the staff and stakeholders of 31 cultural and creative industry organisations; and 12 additional academic and funding organisations in the delivery of more than 65 research projects and outreach activities.

This Capacity Building in Business Research and Engagement Award has two aims: - to ensure Scotland has the capacity not only to sustain, but also to enhance, a vibrant creative industries sector; - to develop sustained research to build a strong knowledge base of the sector in Scotland 'Capitalising on Creativity' focuses on the concept of capital - particularly the generation and translation of intellectual property into economic capital. This depends on the interplay of a range of social and economic factors that allow ideas and excellence to be recognised as such. This conceptual framework informs the project's substantive research areas of Creative Working (intellectual capital), Collaborative Relationships (social capital), Growing Markets (cultural capital) and Realising Value (economic capital). Capacity building is achieved by partnering the Institute with creative industry organisations and businesses, distributing knowledge of the research outcomes through sector networks, and linking the Institute with the creative industry sector as a whole. The grant supports a portfolio of training and knowledge exchange including CASE Studentships, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Placements and a Business Voucher Scheme. Each involves organisation/business input in developing research projects which benefit the participating organisation and the sector more generally.