innovation

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.

Digital Liberty

Winner creates all?

alawrence — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:20:56 +1000

Almost all creative ventures fail, but the successful ventures can be spectacular write Stuart Cunningham and Paul Ormerod.

CCI News

A conceptual framework for information retrieval in pockets of creativity

alawrence — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:07:54 +1000

Creativity as the prerequisite for innovation is a core competitive factor in contemporary organizations. When creativity happens this involves creative persons who produce creative products in a process of imagination. We introduce the concept of Pockets of Creativity for those sections of a business process where creativity occurs. These sections are characterised by a high demand for flexibility and knowledge of the involved creative persons. In Pockets of Creativity previous knowledge is retrieved, transformed and combined into new procedures or artefacts – in short – innovations.

Business Process Management

Industry policy as innovation policy

alawrence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:03:51 +1000

Kate Morrison and Jason Potts, 'Industry policy as innovation policy’ in Greg Hearn and David Rooney (eds) Knowledge policy: Challenges for the 21st century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

A version of this document available to download is the submission relating to items 1,2 and 3 of the Productivity Commission’s Terms of Reference for its study of public support for science and innovation in Australia.

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

Uses of multimedia: books and book chapters 2007

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:50:12 +1100

The Uses of Multimedia

Uses of multimedia: conference papers 2007

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:46:16 +1100

The Uses of Multimedia