Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
Program leader: Stuart Cunningham
Australia faces a crisis in innovation in the sphere of economic development and policy. This is being addressed at a national level during 2008 with a wide-ranging Innovation Inquiry. Synergistic relations between science, engineering and technology and the dynamic services, consumer and creative sectors of the economy need to be explored and realised. Australia’s ‘creative innovation’ system, while embryonic, needs to be underpinned by a better understanding of the basic dimensions, trends and dynamics of the creative economy.
CCI is working to address the shortcomings of statistical assessments of the digital content and broader creative industries, and tracing the way creative inputs (human, economic, technological) are becoming more deeply embedded in the wider economy. We are working hard on new conceptual foundations which can advance knowledge in the domain of the co-evolution of the economic and cultural spheres. There is focused policy research around international innovation systems, the policy frameworks that support them, and targeted evidence-building to support a more comprehensive approach to innovation.
Projects at CCI