economics

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?

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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.

We propose a new definition of the creative industries in terms of social network markets. The current definition of the creative industries is based on an industrial classification that proceeds in terms of the creative nature of inputs and the intellectual property nature of outputs. We propose, instead, a new market-based definition in terms of the extent to which both demand and supply operate in complex social networks. We review and critique the standard creative industries definitions and explain why we believe a market-based social network definition offers an analytic advance.

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.

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?

ABSTRACT: Much thought and effort has gone into the design of new conceptual frameworks and theoretical tools for the analysis of evolving, self-transforming economic systems. Nevertheless, why not follow Marshall?

Jason Potts (forthcoming) 'Ontology in Economics' in R Poli (ed) Theory and Applications of Ontology: A handbook. Springer Verlag.

Stuart Cunningham, Jason Potts and John Banks have written the opening chapter in the forthcoming title Cultural Economy to be published by Sage in September 2008 as part of their Cultures and Globalization series.

The Cultural Economy is edited by: Helmut K. Anheier at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yudhishthir Raj Isar from the The American University of Paris.

This paper proposes that there have been three iterations of creative industries mapping to date.