The Changing of Real Estate for Collaborative Innovation - Stratford Cross x WorkTech Academy

Business and Innovation
  • 15 Oct 2024
Business and Innovation
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Bringing together our experience in innovation ecosystems and the workplace, we have recently partnered with Worktech Academy and published Desk to District, to understand how companies are collaborating against a backdrop of considerable social, economic, environmental and technological change. 
 
 
 
Key Findings 
Post pandemic, many organisations have been rethinking real estate usage, often repurposing or relocating, to get people back to the office to stimulate greater collaboration, innovation and new ideas.  There’s also been a renewed drive to connect better with external partners to widen knowledge bases, drive innovation and find solutions. In 2019 we identified three innovation workspace models:
  
  • Innovation Labs – organisational level model
  • Shared Hubs – network level model
  • Innovation district  - ecosystem level model
 
In 2024 these models remain relevant, however, the rate of change has caused significant evolution across each. This includes the revitalisation of Innovation Labs, the expanded partnerships of Shared Hubs and the acceleration of collaborative platforms with enhanced placemaking and networking. Explore how these trends are evolving and successfully intersect at Stratford Cross and MIND.
 

“As organisations rethink, reimagine and relocate their workplace, there is now an unprecedented opportunity to raise the bar in terms of collaborative innovation.”  ​

Jeremy Myerson, Professor Emeritus, Royal College of Art, Director of Worktech Academy  

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