ClusterOS Diagnostic Profile
Greater Glasgow Digital Creative
Greater Glasgow Digital Creative runs on 107 evidence items (Greater Glasgow Digital Creative UKRI grants: 470 grants, £541m total, 90 dis). The diagnostic resolves a Extraction-Narrative configuration at HIGH confidence.
Value extraction events generate narrative about ecosystem success; narrative legitimises continued extraction by framing it as ecosystem contribution; uncertainty about whether extraction is harmful absorbed by the success narrative.
Intermediaries produce narrative about their facilitation role; narrative legitimises intermediary existence and funding; uncertainty about direct coupling absorbed by narrative rather than demonstration.
"If annual ecosystem reports (e.g., by Scottish Enterprise or Glasgow City Innovation District) separated extraction metrics (graduate hiring by non-local corporates, IP licensing to external entities) from retention metrics (local startup formation, local reinvestment), it might reduce the system's ability to absorb success signals through narrative without making the difference between value creation and value capture...
Leverage hypotheses are testable perturbations, not prescriptions. Where demand-side behaviour is weakly visible, the correct move is observation — improving visibility before attempting change.
A full ClusterOS diagnostic adds actor questionnaire data, working sessions, and anchor interviews — producing higher-confidence stall identification, board-ready stack analysis, and leverage hypotheses calibrated to your specific context.