About CCI

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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) was established in 2005 to focus research and development on the contribution that the creative industries and their contributing disciplines can make to a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system.

Block funded by the Australian Research Council from 2005-13, it is acknowledged as a global leader in this emerging field. It is a broadly-based, cross-disciplinary, internationally focused Centre embracing both fundamental theoretical and highly applied research in media, cultural and communication studies, law, education, economics and business and information technology, addressing key problems and opportunities arising for Australia, the Asian region, and for the wider world, from innovation in both the creative economy and the broader service economy. It addresses the nature of the field as rapidly-moving and internationally-focused, with extensive research links and international nodes established or planned in Britain, Singapore and China.

The Centre plays a significant role in theoretical and strategic debates with academic, policy, and industry interlocutors, as well as working extensively on new empirical and technical methodologies, including, for example, the creation of new statistical approaches to measuring the creative economy, new software solutions for creative enterprise, and ethnographic action research.

The Centre has an ambitious research agenda organised around three themes
Creative Innovation: Content, IT, Design, BPM, Enterprise
Innovation Policy: Innovation Policy, Law, Economics
Creative Human Capital: Industry, Education, Workforce, Consumers

and 6 research programs
1. Crisis in Innovation
2. Creative Workforce
3. Citizen-Consumer
4. Enterprise Formation and Sustainability
5. Legal and regulatory impasses and innovations
6. International Creative Content Cultures and Australian Advantage

Moving forward, the Centre is working to bring the benefits of a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary set of resources. For the second stage of the Centre’s life from mid-2010, the Centre will make some changes to its research architecture. Projects and project teams will be organised around the architecture of ‘Conceptual breakthroughs’, ‘Methodological innovations’ and ‘Applications’ in the cultural and commercial environment. A substantial proportion of the proposed project teams consist of multi-institutional and/or multiple discipline contributions. Second stage project strategies provide incentives for inter-institutional collaboration.

Support and partnerships
The Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian Research Council in providing core funding to establish the Centre, 2005-13. We acknowledge Queensland University of Technology, as the administering institution, for its substantial support for the Centre. The core collaborating partners are Swinburne University of Technology, Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Edith Cowan University, University of Wollongong and University of New South Wales.