creative industries

Creating value: between commerce and commons conference papers

alawrence — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:00:41 +1000

The following papers, from the Creating Value Conference (hosted by CCI, 25 - 27 June 2008, Brisbane), have been peer reviewed as per HERDC Category E1 specifications.

Designing a national innovation system to allow the creative industries to add value

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:53:26 +1000

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Acknowledging and celebrating new energy around critiques of Australia’s National Innovation System, this paper explores the design of an innovation system that would harness energy from the Creative Industries. The notion that the Creative Industries are an important element of Australia’s innovation system has not, it seems, been self-evident.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

CCI media backgrounder

alawrence — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:30:39 +1000

Since it began in early 2006, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) has rapidly developed an international reputation as a research hub humming with bright ideas about Australia’s digital future.

Beyond the creative industries: mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom - NESTA presentation

alawrence — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:56:37 +1000

This presentation to NESTA's Measuring the Creative Industries workshop contains a range of slides covering the data collected in CCI's Digital Industries Mapping project.

Creative digital industries mapping

Winner creates all?

alawrence — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:20:56 +1000

Almost all creative ventures fail, but the successful ventures can be spectacular write Stuart Cunningham and Paul Ormerod.

CCI News

Beyond the creative industries: mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom

alawrence — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:03:37 +1000

The creative industries are one of the most important contributors to the UK economy. So it is important that we accurately measure their contribution to economic activity. Doing so can help both policymakers and industry professionals to communicate key concepts, share reliable data and make the case for greater investment. There have been renewed attempts to estimate the true size of the creative economy. The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Greater London Authority (GLA) both published studies in 2007.

Creative digital industries mapping

Creative industries and cultural science: A definitional odyssey

alawrence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:24:44 +1000

In this paper Jason Potts argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries suffer multiple non-commensurable definitions. These are reviewed and analytic implications for the definition of cultural science are examined.

Published in Cultural Science, Vol 1, No 1 (2008)

Creative digital industries mapping

The cultural economy today

alawrence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:39:52 +1000

Stuart Cunningham, Jason Potts and John Banks have written the opening chapter in the forthcoming title Cultural Economy to be published by Sage in September 2008 as part of their Cultures and Globalization series.

The Cultural Economy is edited by: Helmut K. Anheier at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yudhishthir Raj Isar from the The American University of Paris.

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

Creative industries mapping: where have we come from and where are we going?

alawrence — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:58:38 +1100

This paper proposes that there have been three iterations of creative industries mapping to date.

Creative digital industries mapping

Australia’s creative economy information sheets

alawrence — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:03:29 +1000

A series of 15 fact sheets on employment and businesses characteristics of the creative segments.

Creative digital industries mapping