Firm strategy and innovation in the creative industries Publications

Explaining contradictions in film and television industry policy: ideas and incremental policy change through layering and drift
1 January 2008
New technologies at work
13 December 2007

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Research Programs

Firm strategy and innovation in the creative industries

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This project is primarily concerned with the way in which technological change and globalization are impacting on the strategy and competitiveness of the creative industries. It focuses on a specific segment of the creative industries – the post, digital and visual effects sector (PDV). This is a thriving and increasingly technologically sophisticated sector which accounts for a growing share of production expenditure in film, TV and commercials production. The rapid evolution of creative industries such as PDV is creating new, or at least enhanced, international competitive opportunities. Our research focuses on the strategies that Australian firms are adopting to realise these new opportunities.

People

Rachel Parker, Stephen Cox, Polly Ambermoon

Project News

Plans for 2008

Posted 28/03/2008

In 2008 we will conduct a second round of interviews in Australia which will include firms located in the middle of the PDV sector (focusing on TVC and domestic film production) and freelancers. We will also begin an international institutional comparison which will examine the policy settings relating to the PDV sector in London. The conditions that allowed the rapid increase in scale and competitiveness of the sector in London are of particular interest to the current study.

Progress in 2007

Posted 28/03/2008

We collected a range of publicly available data and conducted 22 interviews in the Australian PDV sector. Interviewees were selected from a database we assembled of key sector players – firms, industry associations, training bodies and policy makers. Our initial findings can be summarised as follows:

Project Events

Open Access and Research Conference 2008
24 - 25 September, Brisbane QLD