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

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.

2020's focus on traditional arts funding came at the expense of our creative growth sectors, writes Creative Australia delegate Stuart Cunningham
The Australia 2020 Summit brought people from the heights and the streets together to meet and exchange ideas. It was an exciting concept that produced many valuable ideas.

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?

Coates, J. Suzor, N. and Fitzgerald, A., Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 Activities, report prepared for Smart Service Queensland, July 2007 available at http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/files/Queensland%20Government%20Report%20-%20re...

Black, P., Delaney, H. and Fitzgerald, B., ‘Legal Issues for Wikis: The Challenge of User-generated and Peer-produced Knowledge, Content and Culture’ (2007) 14(1) eLaw Journal 245-282