ACTION TANK:FAB LABS & MAKERSPACESSHEFFIELD12/11/14

INTEGREAT PLUS

Integreat Plus is a social enterprise working througout

Yorkshire & the Humber, our remit is to help drive

forward the best in quality place making.

Integreat Plus supports communities, local authorities & built environmenta professionals to deliver their

strategic ambitions for places, including their feasibility, design and business planning work, helping them achieve

their aspirations & the full potential of their project. We have a strong track record in effective delivery, bringing

expertise and knowledge in urbanism, architecture & neighbourhood planning to projects. We also run the

Yorkshrie Design Review Service.

The result is better collaboration between communities, professionals &

local authorities to creatsustainable places.

SECTION ONEDEVELOPING FERTILEGROUNDS FOR A NEWINCLUSIVE ECONOMY.

DEVELOPINGINFRASTRUCTURESPACES FOR THE CORE SECTORCREATIVE&DIGITALINDUSTRIES

• Higer Education: Sheffield Hallam

University and University of

Sheffield. Sheffield College

• Art and Design College

• Local TV (Sheffield Live)

• Digital Media / Maker Centres

Then into neighbourhoods to

build economically and socially

resilient communities.

SECTION TWOACCELERATING ANDBRIDGING DIGITALSKILLS.

“Now more than ever before, digital offers the

chance to drive sustained economic recovery,

but this will only be realised if we become a

nation of digitally confident businesses with a

digitally literate workforce. The onus cannot

be on the Government alone. Businesses

must proactively seek out opportunities to

collaborate to maximise the digital growth

opportunity and harness the potential of the

next generation."

As digital natives, young people possess

valuable skills that will be the future fuel of

our economy, but not enough is being done

to harness them. We’re committed to playing

our part, which is why we are hosting Campus

Party, one of the world’s largest tech festivals,

to showcase new ways to break into digital

careers and give businesses an unconventional

hunting ground to find the talent they need to

proposer.”

Telefonica UK CEORonan Dunne

There are three areas where

together employers and

Government can make a

meaningful difference to ensure

that the digital potential of the

next generation is fully realised:

• Greater collaboration between Government andbusiness to improve awareness of digital careers

amongst young people

• Increased support from businesses and industry in

the delivery of digital skills education in schools

• Backing from Government and businesses to increaseengagement in digital skills exchange programmes,

to encourage small businesses to better support and

offer young people work experience

“It’s vital that government,

industry and the voluntary

sector work together to ensure

that everyone has basic online

skills. Only then will we unlock

the huge economic and social

benefit that digital presents.”

DIGITAL SKILLS GAP

The Future Digital Skills Needs of the UK is a call

to arms in narrowing the gap between Education and

Business needs and ensuring digital skills capacity is

accelerated especially with the young.

It recognises at the heart of a successful economy

whether rural or urban is the digital economy once a

growth sector is now at its CORE.

The report argued that the UK is facing an additional

need 745,000 digital skilled workers are required by 2017.

Released as part of Campus party, 24hr a day technology

festival.

Coding Cupboard – match making service between

Students and Business

• Developing CV and portfolio

• Short projects

• Earning

Digital Day – Schools paired with Digital Agencies to

create a project benefitting their community using digital

design, social media, apps or coding

Codecademy – offers free interactive tutorials ranging

from novice to competent

Digital High Street Skills – ATCM and the Nationals Skills

Academy for Retail delivering training days for retailers

The Codeplayer – provides access to self-learning

materials, videos to watch coders at work

The Khan Academy provides "a free, world-classeducation for anyone, anywhere."

INTERVENTIONSincreasing focus on narrowingthe gap & engaging young people

SECTION THREENEW PATTERNS.

RESPONDING TO AND ACCELERATINGNEW EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS

• Self-Employment has exploded

• 4.5 million self employed

• c. 15% workforce

Implications

Concealed unemployment or off shoring?

Or

Permanent structural change?

Demographics• GrowthinEmploymentlargelydrivenbyself-employment • Baby boomers

• Moving to from Fulltime to Part time set up asconsultants

• Over 65 are more likely to be self-employed

• Women representing the highest growth

How comfortable are people with being self-employed?

RESOLUTIONFOUNDATION REPORTAbout the recent self – employed

‘Some will see themselves as entrepreneurs and revel

in setting up their own business – the clear majority still

prefer to be their own boss - but a considerable minority

appear to be there unwillingly or at least would prefer

the security of being an employee given the choice. The

new face of self-employment is more likely to be female

and looking for an alternative compared with their more

established counterparts’

75% are happy

25% less so

Should we regard this rise an encouraging trend

blossoming of entrepreneurship?

This is an ongoing debate…….

• Launch a small business fund.

• Set up Community Wealth Creation initiatives.

• Build partnerships between housing associations and affordable credit providers.

• Create a local investor networks.

• Ensure that assessments of community assets look inwards.

• Turn post offices/library assets into community enterprise opportunities

• Pool local investment.

• Helpcommunitiesraiseinvestmentthroughcommunityshareissues,crowdfundinget

al.

• Make mortgages easier for community shops and other community asset investments.

• Support local independent traders.

DEVELOPING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE:

SOCIAL BUSINESSES: SELF-EMPLOYMENT

SECTION FOURBUILDING INCLUSIVEBUSINESSENVIRONMENTS.

Building newcapital for

BUSINESSENVIRONMENTSPeople who live and work in neighbourhoods

know best the opportunities and constraints

that are present there. While government,

institutions and the private sector may seek

and promote large-scale solutions, often

local entrepreneurs and activists are better

equipped to respond nimbly and imaginatively,

developing innovations quickly that can later

be ‘scaled up’.

What are the enabling conditions that foster

community-based resilience?

What are the examples of granular initiatives that

deliver both a livability and a resilience benefit?

Are there approaches of local approaches that

can be applied to places around the world?

Propositionsfor

ADDRESSINGTHE ISSUE:Creating ‘networks of practice’ that connect

local innovators – ‘Community business

practitioners’ working to boost the livability

and resilience of their place.

Creating peer-to-peer learning platforms

encourages experimentation and tinkering –

reducing the ‘stakes’ so failure can be easily

and quickly risked, and approaches adapted

until effective. Successful approaches can be

broadly communicated, and then adapted to

other places/communities/scales

Resilience is a capacity that must be cultivated

at all scales. Policies and funding must find

ways to enable and support this capacity beingdeveloped.

Section FiveBuilding legacies:Building oninvestment.

The Community Media Association and CM Solutions, providing

business advice and support and a community grants scheme,

delivered TUTV. It invested £950,000 (ERDF / YF SP) and exceeded

its targets under Objective 1 Measure 21 in ‘Supporting community

economic development’. It also focused on regional Tier 2

outcome targets:

• Sustainable economic performance, by assisting thedevelopment of skills that would help individuals to find

employment

• Enterprise, by assisting groups and individuals to establish

social enterprises in media and communications

TURN UP THE VOLUME(TUTV)(2005-07)

CE:SY was a £1.6m economic inclusion investment (ERDF / YF

SP) to spread the economic benefits of the creative and digital

industries to some of the most disadvantaged communities in

South Yorkshire.

The CE:SY Innovation Fund invested £300,000 into 14 third sector

led enterprise centres and projects across Barnsley, Doncaster,

Rotherham and Sheffield, supporting the development of CDI-

focused workspaces in priority neighbourhoods.

In addition, CE:SY funded skills and training programmes to assist

people with access to business know how.

CE:SY significantly exceeded its targets with 311 businesses

supported and 35 businesses created, with 48 employed jobs and

64 freelance jobs.

Long term project

Delivered incrementally

CREATIVE EXCHANGESouth Yorkshire (2006-08)

SCN targeted key SCR objectives of increasing GVA through support for

individuals and SMEs demonstrating start-up and growth potential and a

commitment to developing new jobs. The SCN emphasis on digital skillsand communications also demonstrates a spin-off impact on quality of life,

making Sheffield communities more attractive places to live and work.

The project demonstrated repeatable and scalable approaches

• Developing the workforce through building digital skills

• Supporting growth through start-ups drawing on digital innovation in

design, manufacturing and media production

• Exploiting infrastructure through local Digital Media Centres and digital

content platforms networked through Digital Region broadband

• Enhancing quality of place by enabling progression in localised contexts

from the city centre to outlying neighbourhoods

SHEFFIELDCOMMUNITYNETWORK

project (SCN, 2010-14)

Exploiting digital opportunities – realise high growth potential in key sectors

while ensuring the platform is established to grow the economy more widely.

• Digital technologies carry intrinsic potential as engines for growth,

enabling innovative product and service development in the CDI (digital

media) and AME (digital design and manufacturing) sectors.

• Exploiting the instrumental value of digital technologies is critical to SMEdevelopment, agility, competitiveness and innovation across the economic

base – from small traders to latent inventors.

Most significantly, SCN demonstrate the potential for growing the economy

more widely, through incubation of businesses in communities as well as

through established touch points in colleges, universities and city centres.

ERDF investment of £2.3m has funded the establishment of SCN project

infrastructure, a programme of social enterprise support and two block grant

schemes for Digital Media Centres and Social Enterprise Equipment Grants.

THE SCNFOCUS ON

DCLG

Requirement

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OUTCOMES&OUTPUTSSCN investment secured a range of physical assets including:

• 12 neighbourhood-based Digital Media Centres

• 10 Virtual Conferencing Nodes leveraging Digital Region Infrastructure

• Investment in digital equipment such as laser cutters and 3-D printers

• A Digital Media Enterprise Hub providing city centre presence

• Sheffield local TV. New publishing platform.

THE DIGITAL MAKER CENTRE

MODEL

The 3rd Industrial Revolution is upon us

Global evidence suggests that digital technologies are engendering new

economic patterns by transforming our interactions and relationships not

only with social and digital media, but also with manufacturing through

personalised engineering and rapid prototyping.

'Creative destruction’ is both a threat to existing economic models in a city

like Sheffield and an opportunity to be grasped.

This emerging economy is an intensive ecosystem, characterised byideas of the ‘circular’ or ‘shared’ economy, is stimulating new patterns

of collaboration, production and consumption founded on reputation,

community and access.

The SCN experience indicates that a mediated network of Digital Media

(or Digital Maker) Centres will help build an ambitious and inclusive path

to bring these elements together and drive new models of sustainable

economic development, fostering positive engagements with manufacturing

at the City Region and neighbourhood levels.

DMCs are mostly thriving hubs providing designers, social enterprises, and

community entrepreneurs with affordable access to advanced and traditional tools for

design, manufacturing and digital media, hosting experts and like-minded people to

grow expertise and collaboration.

DMCs can be hosted within existing community centres or can be absorbed within re-

purposed spaces like Libraries, sitting alongside the delivery of new public services.

They will enable people to develop their skills and capabilities and rapidly turn ideas

into new products.

DMCs are part of an ecosystem in which they act as local nodes for mutual support,

peer networking and client business development, whilst also drawing on broader

expertise from the project hub.

EVOLVING THE PROPOSITION…

WHO WILL USE THEDIGITAL MAKER CENTRES?From helping inventors, developers and innovators take their products to

market, through enabling producers to develop new digital media content to

giving students and newcomers of all ages exposure to digital technologies,

the centres promote enterprise and enhance shared expertise by:

• Strengthening employability and employment opportunities

• Enabling early start enterprises to deploy digital design and production

• Engaging individuals at critical (or ‘interstitial’) moments to develop their

journey to become designers, makers and digital entrepreneurs

• Drawing on a range of sector networks which offer the prospect of

innovative partnerships, shared principles and collective intelligence,

thus achieving smarter economic and social value outcomes.

In short the DMC’s foster open access to both hard and soft technologies to

stimulate early stage product prototyping and creative content development

allowing individual producers and businesses to test out new ideas whether

as physical objects or media content. They create the conditions for ‘peer to

peer’ review and shared development in a collaborative environment while

encouraging innovation through intensive access to sector networks, expertmentoring and centres of excellence in further and higher education.

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Design & Advanced

Engineering

Neighbourhood

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Integreat PlusOffice 7, The CubeNo.1. Brittain StreetSheffieldS1 4RJ

0114 213 0040

info@integreatplus.com

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