The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) was an Australian research centre that undertook research in

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, law, education, economics, business technology, and

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, related to the creative economy, between 2005 and 2013.

History

The Centre was formally established in 2005 with core funding from the

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(ARC), the Australian Government's main

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for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities, for the period 2005 to 2010. At this time a series of government-commissioned reports on Australia's innovation system had recently argued for a national commitment to creative innovation. ARC funding was extended, following an ARC review in 2008, for the period 2010 to 2013.

Description

CCI was the first ARC centre of excellence in the humanities and creative arts. The Centre was based in

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, Australia, at the Kelvin Grove Campus of the

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

. The Directorate and largest research node of CCI were located at

. The second largest research node was at

Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access ...

. Smaller research nodes were located at other research partner institutions:

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and

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Notable staff

Staff included: *

Stuart Cunningham Stuart Cunningham (born 1953) is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies at QUT. Biography He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology, and Former ...

, Director *

Jean Burgess Jean Burgess is a Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, (which she co-founded and directed between 2015–2020) and in the QUT School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Exc ...

, Deputy Director * Brian Fitzgerald * John Hartley * Lelia Green

History

Description

Notable staff

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