CLEVER: Creative Leadership

Close, Donna and Boddington, Anne (2021) CLEVER: Creative Leadership. [Data Collection]

Project Description

An international research project into Creative Leadership developing new understanding and pedagogy about how creative and humanities skills and practices can drive economic impact through powering a more productive, innovative and impactful creative industries sector. The project developed a definition of ‘Creative Leadership’ as a concept, designed pedagogies to teach these skills to student and businesses and collated impact evidence to support policy changes in Israel around the creative industries. The European partners were the University of Brighton; Iceland Academy of the Arts: Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design; Creative Business Cup Denmark; Estonia Business School; Creative Estonia, THNK Netherland. The Israeli partners were from the education sector: Shenkar Institute of Engineering, Art & Design: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Sapir Academic College, Hadassah Academic College, The College of Management Academic Studies and from the policy sector, Lahav (Israeli Chamber of Commerce), JVP Fund (Investors) and ISMEA (Israeli Small and Medium Enterprises Authority) The University of Brighton (Close and Boddington) led on the development of the Creative Leadership Education Roadmap. This included a Literature and Contextual Review, an international Creative Leadership seminar which took place in July 2016 and featured speakers from the RSA, Arts Council, Design Council and Cabinet Office. Close developed a Creative Leadership framework model and toolkit to shape both academic and industry learning, and applied this to the creation of a new L5 module and industry/ LLL focused programme in Creative Leadership. The L5 module was run with visiting Israeli students over 2 academic years. The sandbox was run as professional development for Israeli professors over two years.