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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.