Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

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This project is a development of the third stage of Creative Digital Industries in Australia. It consists of a series of subprojects aimed at developing 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.

Project News

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