innovation

The CCI narrative: research for a creative Australia

alawrence — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:15:52 +1000

Essentially, the story of the CCI has been to give substance to the link between creative industries and innovation, to explore its implications for our core academic discipline fields and several policy domains and, working with industry and community, to assist in its application in practical circumstances. In short, it has sought to mainstream innovation in and through the creative industries for policy consideration, deepen it for academic engagement, and apply it for industry and community benefit.

The ‘object of study’ has been arguably more changeable over the period than fields of research intensity such as biotechnology, medical research or IT. Rapid developments, in particular in social media, have occasioned major social, economic and cultural impact. Significant theoretical work has been developed around economics and culture which attempts to feed into this volatile landscape. There is much further to be done.

This narrative is organised around the impact or ‘National Benefit’ claims the centre has set itself from day one. These are outcomes-based and thus most appropriate.

Download the full story here

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Home internet for remote Indigenous communities

mcummins — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:44:12 +1000

This report documents the circumstances and experiences of 3 remote Indigenous communities in central Australia and outlines the reasons for the low level of internet take-up, and considers the future prospects for ‘home internet’ in these communities.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Growing future innovators: A new approach to learning programs for young people

alawrence — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:32:03 +1100

The Growing Future Innovators scoping study includes a detailed review of local, national and international policy relating to arts, education and innovation and case studies of innovative and best practice schools education programs delivered by eighteen contemporary arts organisations in Australia and the UK.

Creative Workforce 2.0

Supporting culture when everyone’s on YouTube

ccook — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:34:40 +1100

There are young Australians who are already making a name (and money) for themselves in the latest market for creative content – and it didn’t exist a moment ago. YouTube is a huge repository of amateur content, but it is also rapidly evolving into a site that has legally contracted Hollywood movies and TV shows but is working out ways to share revenues from advertising with gifted and committed amateurs whose creativity attracts a big following.

Can government play a role in assisting Australian creative talent to catch some of dynamism of emerging markets for culture?

Creative digital industries mapping

From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Diverse Learners and Pedagogical Practice

jtan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:12:20 +1000

In this paper, we provide specific examples of the educational promises and problems that arise as multiliteracies pedagogical initiatives encounter conventional institutional beliefs and practices in mainstream schooling. This paper documents and characterizes the ways in which two specific digital learning initiatives were played out in two distinctive traditional schooling contexts, as experienced by two different student groups: one comprising an elite mainstream and the other an excluded minority.

Creative Workforce 2.0

Creative Labour: Emancipation or Honey-Trap?

coconnor — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:47:15 +1000

Faculty Seminar Series

Professor Justin O’Connor, Research Capacity Building Professor Tuesday 28th April 12pm-1pm The Hall (Z2-226) CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove

Creative labour: emancipation or honey-trap?

Creative digital industries mapping

Creative ecologies: where thinking is a proper job

alawrence — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:44:09 +1100

Why_do_some_ideas flourish and others fail?
Why is independent thought valued in some societies and discouraged in others?

Ecology is the study of how organisms relate to their environment. Following on from the success of his 2001 book The Creative Economy, leading thinker John Howkins applies ecological principles to the concepts of creativity and innovation, generating Creative Ecologies.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

From vaporousness to visibility: What might evidence of creative capacity building actually look like?

jtan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:04:56 +1100

The paper seeks to warrant the authors’ claim that creative capacity building can, at least in substantive part, be made visible through empirical processes of inquiry. To do so, the authors present methodologies and findings from two research projects they have conducted into creative capacity building, the first of which tracks student networking capacity and the second of which identifies cognitive playfulness as a creative learning disposition.

Creative Workforce 2.0

Designing a national innovation system to allow the creative industries to add value

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:53:26 +1000

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.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Creative commons (CC) briefing paper

alawrence — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:07:22 +1000

Founded by Prof Lawrence Lessig in 2001 and publishing its initial licences in December 2002, to counter “a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful or of creators of the past”, Creative Commons (CC – creativecommons.org) is now a global phenomenon. Creative Commons Australia (CCau – creativecommons.org.au) is one of forty-three countries involved in the initiative, with another nineteen potential member nations currently being developed.

Creative commons clinic