Our Research
Since 2012, CREATe has conducted and supported more than 60 projects relating to cultural production and digital markets. CREATe introduced a new interdisciplinary approach to vexing policy questions, initially working as a UK wide consortium with academics from law, economics, management, computer science, sociology, psychology, ethnography and critical studies. Since 2018, CREATe is more firmly anchored in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow (intellectual property law, information law, competition law), and works across disciplines as part of the University’s new Advanced Research Centre (ARC).
Our research programme creates independent evidence and analysis that enables the creative industries to produce not just economic growth but creative opportunities for citizens and consumers in an age where cultural production should be limited only by time and imagination.
In 2024, we were awarded major infrastructure funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which enabled us, as the Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, to broaden our research, covering a range of topics at the intersection of the domains of Creativity, Technology and Markets. Find out more about our current research themes and projects.
We also curate the CREATe Working Paper series, an open access resource designed to rapidly disseminate original research by CREATe investigators and associated scholars to the wider community. You can find our Working Papers together with our latest reports and academic publications here.
Since inception, another important strand of CREATe work has been coordinating and contributing responses to policy consultations in the UK and EU.