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"CCI in Retrospect and Prospect" was the final research symposium of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), held in Brisbane in April 2014.It marked the end of the ARC-funded period of the Centre (2005-13).
It was billed as follows:
"The Symposium is an in-depth exploration of CCI’s influence, impact and contributions since 2005, as well as its ongoing agenda.
"Over the past eight years CCI has sought to make the idea of innovation in and through the creative industries a mainstream policy consideration, deepen it for academic engagement, and apply it for industry and community benefit.
"CCI has provided international leadership in:
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<list-item>broadening and extending our understanding of the innovation system and the place of digital content and creative industries within it</list-item>
<list-item>developing and applying models of education and training appropriate for a ‘creative workforce’</list-item>
<list-item>conducting research into the social, economic and cultural value of digital literacy, digital content innovation, and user-led innovation in diverse settings</list-item>
<list-item>positioning Australian research at the forefront of China’s creative industries emergence through the CCI ‘creative innovation’ model</list-item>
<list-item>building the global Creative Commons movement and participating in Australian law reform to better facilitate information flow as a driver of innovation</list-item>
<list-item>generating fundamental new knowledge at the boundaries of cultural and media studies and evolutionary economics.</list-item>
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"But there is much more to be done. In this symposium, CCI engages with academic colleagues and industry, government and community partners to reflect on and debate the Centre’s contributions, and to chart pathways forward."
For the Symposium Program, see:
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This issue of Cultural Science Journal publishes a selection of future-facing presentations from the Symposium, revised and extended for publication here. The special themed section of the Journal is further sub-divided to represent some of the main sessions of the two-day event.
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Themed Section: The CCI Final Symposium 2014

Cultural Science Journal

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Themed Section: The CCI Final Symposium 2014

Published Online: Jun 21, 2014

Page range: 23 - 23

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.99

© 2014, published by Sciendo

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