Acknowledgements The creative corridors policy landscape is incomplete and ever evolving. This report is the result of a joint venture between the RSA and Creative Policy

Creative PEC The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) works to support the growth of the UK’s creative industries through the production of independent and authoritative evidence and policy advice. [...] Over the last few months, the RSA, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC), and Arts Council England have been working in partnership and speaking to creative practitioners, organisations, and policymakers up and down the country to understand the conditions required to nurture creative corridors. [...] Within the current context of increasing devolution across the UK, as well as the UK Government’s forthcoming Industrial Strategy’s focus on the creative industries, place and industrial clusters, this is an advantageous moment to consider the opportunities that increased regional powers and resources may provide to support and harness the growth of creative industries at the local level. [...] It also shares examples of pioneering creative corridor initiatives in the UK developing in places ranging from Wales, the West Midlands and the West of England, to the North of England and the South East in the Thames Estuary. [...] From November 2023 to March 2024, the RSA and Creative PEC, funded by Arts Council England, convened a broad range of stakeholders to consider evidence on existing and emerging creative corridors, as well as the unique contributions and challenges of the creative industries, to draw out some early insights on the potential for creative corridors in the UK.