Clwstwr is an ambitious five-year programme to build on South Wales' (UK) success in making creative content by putting research and development (R&D) at the core of production. Set up in 2018, it supports the creation of new products, services and experiences for screen industries encouraging innovation and cross disciplinary and cross sectoral working. In this session Sara Pepper, Chief Operating Officer of Clwstwr and Dr Marlen Komorowski, Clwstwr’s Impact Analyst, will share the six lessons they have learned about cross sector innovation through their work with one of the UK’s most rapidly developing creative clusters.

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Sara Pepper is Director of Creative Economy at Cardiff University, with two main leadership roles: Director of creative city network Creative Cardiff, and Chief Operating Officer of Clwstwr a £9million R&D project promoting innovation in the Welsh economy. Her role is to provide leadership and strategic direction to these initiatives and to work with a wide variety of stakeholders including academic, industry and policy partners. Sara is passionate about championing and developing creative talent and ideas and brokering partnerships that enable individuals and organisations to realise their full creative and commercial potential.

Dr Marlen Komorowski performs the impact analysis of the Clwstwr programme. Clwstwr is a five-year programme at Cardiff University to create new products, services and experiences for screen in South Wales. She is senior researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and is also associated with the research centre imec-SMIT-VUB (Studies on Media, Innovation & Technology) in Brussels. As a researcher, her work focuses on media and creative industries-related projects, impact analysis, industry clustering, ecosystem and value network analysis, new business models and the impact of the digitisation on industries and firms.

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