Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
The production of knowledge has become central to economic life. Competitiveness in the 21st century market place is now characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. But does this render cultural and social knowledge unimportant?
This paper proposes that there have been three iterations of creative industries mapping to date.
Cunningham, S. and Potts, J., ‘New economics for new media’, Mobile Media Reader (eds Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth) forthcoming Routledge 2008
This book examines China’s creative economy — and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture.
The first book to chart the development of the field of evolutionary economics, this book provides an integrated generic framework to define the rules of an economic system; how they are coordinated and the causes and consequences of their change.
I want to argue that, whatever some might think, Leibenstein was not so much a mad uncle in the Harvard faculty’s attic (e.g. Stigler 1976 cf. Holden 2005), but rather a brilliant evolutionary economist struggling to escape.
Attempts to measure the bundle of activities termed the creative industries commenced with the UK¹s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) release in 1998 of the Creative Industries Mapping Study.
The experimental methodologies developed in the Creative Industries National Mapping Project (CINMP) by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at QUT indicate that previous attempts to measure the significance of the Australian creative production capacity and employment have underestimated their true extent.
Citiation:
Potts, J. (2007) ‘Fashionomics’ Policy, 23(4): 10-15.
Potts, J. (2007) ‘Art and innovation: An evolutionary view of the creative industries’ UNESCO Observatory e-journal.
Potts, J. and Mandeville, T. (2007) ‘Toward an evolutionary theory of innovation and growth in the service economy’ Prometheus 25(2): 147–160.
Potts, J. (2007) ‘What’s new in the economics of arts and culture?’ Dialogue, 26(1): 8–14.