Knowledge exchange and the creative industries: A reflective commentary on current practice

This reflective commentary summarizes the key learnings that arose from 2019/20 Knowledge Exchange and Creative Industries seminar series. These seminars at University of Bristol, UK, looked engagement with research within creative industries. Each showcased an academic artistic partnership across South West England Wales which resulted in output could be classified as ‘immersive’, including, but not limited to, audio storytelling applications, augmented reality games, virtual projects, films theatre productions. involved collaborators sharing their experiences thoughts on best practice, possible styles potential pitfalls knowledge exchange projects. My provides overview partnerships, represent a snapshot current practices region. I summarize common trends emerged throughout seminars, including methods initiating collaboration, scalability partnerships between industry academia, challenges surrounding process when working multi-partner collaborations, questions ethics intellectual property. also reflect upon processes hosting series, to guide others who are thinking about strategies encourage collaboration. Overall, offers blueprint considerations for those both academia industries considering embarking By drawing attention lessons learned series successful discussion paves way future projects engaged