In the Vernacular brings together important works, written over a twenty-year period by Stuart Cunningham, one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture and policy.
The second volume in 'The Cultures and Globalization Series' analyses the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture.
Download paper: The creative application of knowledge in university education: a case study
Download paper: Designing a national innovation system to allow the creative industries to add value
Acknowledging and celebrating new energy around critiques of Australia’s National Innovation System, this paper explores the design of an innovation system that would harness energy from the Creative Industries. The notion that the Creative Industries are an important element of Australia’s innovation system has not, it seems, been self-evident.
The production of knowledge has become central to economic life. Competitiveness in the 21st century market place is now characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. But does this render cultural and social knowledge unimportant?
In this paper Jason Potts argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries suffer multiple non-commensurable definitions. These are reviewed and analytic implications for the definition of cultural science are examined.
Published in Cultural Science, Vol 1, No 1 (2008)