ClusterOS Diagnostic Profile
Stirling Clackmannanshire Digital
Stirling Clackmannanshire Digital draws £45m of UKRI lead-led funding across 39 grants, anchored by Stirling (47%), with Ufraction8 and Prismtech Group on the industrial side.
The cluster shows low-confidence "Stabilising around incumbents" behaviour — research narrative is reinforced by recurring programme launches rather than narrowing toward commercial scaling, with academic capacity reabsorbing the cluster's signal.
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Same data examined through five diagnostic lenses — Pipeline, Leverage, Triple Helix, Throughput, Collaboration. The interactive diagnostic is currently in private preview.
Sources: UKRI Gateway to Research (grants, outcomes); OpenAlex (publications); Companies House (spin-out lifecycle); DSIT (cluster mapping); Public investment data. Snapshot May 2026.
Stabilisation stacks · Why single interventions fail
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.
"If City Region Deal reporting separated "value generated in region" from "value retained in region" (e.g. tracking where UKRI grant outputs are commercialized, where Innovation Park tenant IP is licensed), it might make extraction-vs-retention difference visible, potentially weakening extraction-as-success narrative."
Leverage hypotheses are testable perturbations, not prescriptions. Where demand-side behaviour is weakly visible, the correct move is observation — improving visibility before attempting change.
Structural resemblances · Clusters with similar stall configurations
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.