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Actually Existing Innovation

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:52:32 +1000

This project gathers together work that is combining conceptual and empirical research focused on actual cases, topics and fields which demonstrate links between creative industries and innovation.

Asian Creative Transformations

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:25 +1000

In 2010 the projects Development of the Creative Industries in China, and CI and the Development Agenda concluded, and Asian Creative Transformations became the new project vehicle with some changes in team personnel. ACT is led by Michael Keane and Jo Tacchi. The ACT project is based around the three key words: ‘Asian’, ‘creative’ and ‘transformations’.

Broadband Services 2015

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:05:57 +1000

This project investigates the thorny public policy and operational issues surrounding broadband policy in Australia. The project has two distinct components:

Creative Employment Mapping and Creative Business Benchmarker

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:09:28 +1000

The objectives of the Creative Economy Mapping project are to:

1. Establish a more robust evidence base for policy development and evaluation
2. Establish more effective toolsets for creative practitioners to be able to assess and improve their performance at the business of being creative.
3. Established better metrics for measuring the extent, impact and viability of creative businesses and creative professionals.

These objectives are being met through the implementation of three streams of activities:

a) The metrics of Creative Employment

Creative Workforce 2.0

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50:51 +1100

Professor Greg Hearn: Program leader (QUT Australia)

Cultural Science

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:23:00 +1000

Progress in 2010

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

paitken — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:39:15 +1100

This now-major project has developed out of Creative Economy Mapping (project 4) over the life of the Centre. It develops the theoretical and analytic foundations of an evolutionary economic approach to analysis of the creative industries.

Global Cultural Futures

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:30:55 +1000

Building on the relationship with Helmut Anheier (UCLA, LSE and Heidelberg) and Raj Isar (American University of Paris) established through the first stage project Cultural Economy, Global Cultural Futures (GCF) is a new international project to be launched in the framework of the Cultures and Globalization Series. Envisioned as a versatile, information-rich and user-friendly website with various components, GCF is designed to replace the printed volumes in the Series, the fifth and final volume of which will be published in 2012.

Progress in 2010

IP Law in Asia

alawrence — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:36:42 +1100

The project IP in Asia serves the need to understand the legal and regulatory environment in our immediate region, especially as it relates to IP. It focuses on the interrelationship between IP law, related regulation and the growing creator and consumer sectors in digital content in Asia, emphasising China and ASEAN.

Progress in 2010

Law for Creative Innovation

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:37:38 +1000

The Law for Creative Innovation program incorporates and builds upon the Centre’s flagship law programs previously known as “Creative Commons Clinic”, “Creative Commons and Open Content Licensing” and “Knowledge Culture and Economy in Web 2.0 World: Reconciling Rights of Creators, Owners, Citizens and Consumers (KCE2.0)”.

Media Ecologies and Methodological Innovation

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:41:48 +1000

This project will develop innovative interdisciplinary methods (and new ways of combining existing methods) for media and communication studies, in order to better map, track and analyse the changing media environment. It focuses on the increasingly complex relationships among professional media outlets, online social networks, and mobile media, and will map the methodological possibilities, implications, and asymmetries of working with the large data sets which can now be extracted from these diverse sources.

Risk and Representation

alawrence — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:54:10 +1000

This project researches the opportunities and risks that face young people in their engagement with digital media. A strategic collaboration between the JMRC (UNSW), Edith Cowan University, QUT and CCI, the project focuses on the digital literacy of children and young people, and the policy implications of online and mobile media regulation. Children’s access to, portrayal in and creative uses of online and mobile media are all impacted by the representation of children in relation to digital culture and the regulation of their engagement with it.

World Internet Project (Australia)

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:28:50 +1100

This is the Australian component of the World Internet Project (WIP), a collaborative, survey-based project looking at the social, cultural, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Founded by the UCLA Center for the Digital Future in the United States in 1999 (now based at the USC Annenberg Center), the WIP has more than 25 university-based partners in countries and regions all over the world.

Youthworx 2.0

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:12:47 +1100

Youthworx is a Melbourne-based youth media enterprise that assists homeless or ‘at risk’ young people to become media trainees, producers and broadcasters with an aim to reconnect them with learning and employment opportunities.