Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

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This now-major project has developed out of Creative Economy Mapping over the life of the Centre. It develops the theoretical and analytic foundations of an evolutionary economic approach to analysis of the creative industries. This includes analysis of models of creative industries growth and their effect on the broader economy; models of ‘social networks’; models of ‘multiple games’; models of institutional evolution; analysis of the ‘economics of creativity’ and the ‘economics of identity’; and innovation policy in the creative industries. The project brings together a cross-disciplinary research group with a broad publication and agenda-setting schedule.

Plans for 2010

2010 will see further conceptual and theoretical papers published on themes of the economics of creative competition, creative industries labour markets, and developing models and applications of cultural science. 2010 will expect to see the completion of two books that are part of this project: Potts’ Evolutionary Economics of Creative industries (Edward Elgar) and Cunningham, Hartley and Potts’ A New Synthesis of Culture and Economics (UQP). Further work will develop the Cultural Science Program through conceptual and theoretical working papers.

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Jason Potts, John Banks, John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Jean Burgess, Simon Freebody

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Plans for 2008

Further working papers will be written and adapted for publication as journal articles. Completion of both Potts’ Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries and a co-authored book for the Creative Culture + Innovation Economy series (see 1.5 below). The work includes extensive cross-disciplinary co-authorship and feeds into the book series, a possible new journal, an international agenda-setting workshop, and a major 2008 CCI conference theme.

Progress in 2007

An intense conceptual and writing schedule saw the production of eight papers. Work progressed on the proposed book Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries. Several working papers were published in or submitted to academic journals; others appeared in book chapters or were presented at conferences

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