John Hartley is organising a high-level research workshop, jointly funded by FEAST (Forum on European-Australian Science & Technology research), to develop the dialogue between evolutionary economics, complexity theory and game theory (on the one hand) and creative industries, innovation policy and cultural studies (on the other). Invitees include leading evolutionary/complexity economists from Europe, researchers working at the culture/science interface (e.g., evolutionary anthropologists and archaeologists) and in world systems analysis, as well as important policy leaders from Australia and the UK. Together we plan to develop a strategic ‘manifesto’ on the prospects for ‘cultural science’. We expect to be able to offer methodological and interdisciplinary innovations as well as substantive studies. This manifesto will inform a major international conference on Creating Value: Between Commerce and Community, which will be hosted by CCI in mid-2008. These two events are the centrepiece of our attempt to reformulate the field during the period of the Fellowship.