Luke Jaaniste

Dr Luke Jaaniste is a research fellow working in the Actually Existing Innovation program of the CCI. He specialises in analysis and conceptual mapping of innovation policy and systems as it relates to the arts and cultural domains.

In 2008 he co-authored ‘The Arts and Australia's National Innovation System: 1994-2008’ for the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) and has since published various journal and conference papers investigating the arts connection to research and development (R&D) in the university and industry. He has also published and lectured on issues of practice-led research, and assisted in the background study of the ‘Growing Future Innovators’ project based in the Perth node of CCI at Edith Cowan University. Luke is also a contemporary visual and sonic artist, and published arts writer, with commissions, festival appearances, exhibitions and residencies across Australia, including ABC Science Week, Brisbane Festival, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Fringe, Arts House and Performance Space.