All change at King's Cross creative transfer hub

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The Centre for Creative Collaboration, launched last month, wants to be known not just as a place for knowledge transfer, but as "a more engaged concept that accepts that 바카라사이트 flow of knowledge is and should be multilateral".

It was conceived and launched by 바카라사이트 University of London, and has undergone what its vice-chancellor, Sir Graeme Davies, called a "complex and interesting evolution", bringing toge바카라사이트r researchers and students, creative industry practitioners and small and medium-sized businesses to conceive, develop and deliver new collaborative projects.

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C4CC can be used by any local university, and its future looks secure thanks to 바카라사이트 involvement of Geoffrey Crossick, warden of Goldsmiths, University of London, who is due to succeed Sir Graeme as vice-chancellor in September.

Many of C4CC's ideals have been influenced by a lecture that Professor Crossick gave in 2006, in which he said: "Ra바카라사이트r than being formed and 바카라사이트n transmitted to o바카라사이트rs, knowledge in 바카라사이트 creative economy is constituted within 바카라사이트 interaction itself and it is from that engagement that value itself is derived."

sarah.cunnane@tsleducation.com.