Greg Hearn

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Greg Hearn is Research Professor at the Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, QUT. His work focuses on mapping and policy development for the Creative Industries. He has been involved in high-level consulting and applied research examining new media and industry/organisational forms for more than two decades, with organisations including British Airways, Hewlett Packard, and many Australian national and state government agencies. He was a consultant to the Broadband Services Expert Group, the national policy group that formulated Australia’s foundational framework for the internet in 1994. In 2005 he was an invited member of a working party examining the role of creativity in the innovation economy for the Australian Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council. He has authored or co-authored over 20 major research reports and six books, including The communication superhighway: Social and economic change in the digital age (1998) and Knowledge Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century (2008).