Jason Potts, Centre Fellow at CCI, and Kate Morrison, of Vulture Street Innovation, have achieved direct influence on the evolution of innovation policy in the UK.

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.

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