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The Future of Creative Work provides a unique overview of the
changing nature of creative work, examining how digital
developments and the rise of intangible capital are causing an
upheaval in the social institutions of work. It offers a profound
insight into how this technological and social evolution will
affect creative professions. Expert international contributors
explore how robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, global
digital platforms and autonomous systems will shape the design,
production and consumption of culture. Taking a multidisciplinary
approach incorporating creative industries studies, business,
education and economics, the book analyses the technological
drivers of disruption in the world of creative work. Chapters
reveal how these changes will create new axes of power and
inequality in the global sphere of creative work, predicting that
conventional creative professions will be challenged and different
species of creative work will evolve as a result. By charting the
impact of digital and technological developments, The Future of
Creative Work challenges traditional views of creative work,
careers and education. This book will be a valuable resource for
students and researchers undertaking creative industries studies.
Its discussion of the application of creative careers across the
economy will also be beneficial for scholars and practitioners
interested in business, economics, and advertising and marketing
studies.
Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has
become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the
21st century market place is characterized by the ability to
translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation.
Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge
unimportant? The contributors attempt to answer this and other
important questions using a broader epistemological base for the
term 'knowledge'. Policy implications are then developed from this
perspective. By examining long-term challenges, this unique book
explains what we actually mean by the term 'knowledge' and raises
fundamental critiques of existing conceptions of knowledge. It
argues that fresh policy thinking is needed not only in more
obviously knowledge-intensive sectors, but also across all areas of
knowledge production. By way of illustration, the effects of the
different dynamics of the knowledge era on defence, health,
employment, environment, indigenous and international relations,
multiculturalism and urban policy are explored. The book then
addresses the enduring question of whether it is possible to
produce too much knowledge at the expense of wisdom. Providing a
thorough treatment on the meaning, production and application of
knowledge, this book will provide a fascinating read for academics,
researchers, students, practitioners and policymakers with an
interest in public policy and knowledge-based economies.
Policymakers globally are seeing the potential for future growth
through embedding greater creativity across their economies. Yet
much academic research has focused on the creative industries as
traditionally defined, rather than looking at the bigger picture.
CCI's research has been the exception, making significant
conceptual and empirical breakthroughs in our understanding of
creative work in the wider economy. This volume should be required
reading for students, researchers and practitioners of innovation
policy.' - Hasan Bakhshi, Director, Creative Economy in Policy
& Research, Nesta, UK'Hearn and his colleagues have amassed an
impressive array of empirical evidence, theoretical insights and
policy prescriptions for understanding how creative workers are
contributing to a variety of industries outside the purely cultural
or creative industry sectors. The scope of their investigations
includes healthcare, banking, manufacturing, digital technology,
creative services, journalism, media and communication, and higher
education. This book significantly advances our understanding of
how creative workers are utilizing their capabilities to contribute
broadly to the economy. It also offers important insights into
professional learning for creative workers and shows how education
can prepare future generations of creative study students to
succeed in today s knowledge based economy.' - Robert DeFillippi,
Suffolk University, US Creative workers are employed in sectors
outside the creative industries often in greater numbers than
within the creative field. This is the first book to explore the
phenomena of the embedded creative and creative services through a
range of sectors, disciplines, and perspectives. Despite the
emergence of the creative worker, there is very little known about
the work life of these 'creatives', and why companies seek to
employ them. This book asks: how does creative work actually
'embed' into a service or product supply chain? What are creative
services? Which industries are they working in? This collection
explores these questions in relation to innovation, employment and
education, using various methods and theoretical approaches, in
order to examine the value of the embedded creative and to discover
the implications of education and training for creative workers.
This book will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and
industry leaders in the creative industries, in particular digital
media, application development, design, journalism, media and
communication. It will also appeal to academics and scholars of
innovation, cultural studies, business management and labour
studies. Contributors include: D. Bennett, R. Bridgstock, J.
Coffey, S. Cunningham, S. Fitzgerald, A. Freeman, B. Goldsmith, G.
Hearn, J. Pagan, P. Petocz, A. Podkalicka, J. Potts, A. Rainnie, J.
Rodgers, J.H.P. Rodrigues, T. Shehadeh, D. Swan, O. Zelenko
This thoroughly revised second edition of the Handbook on the
Knowledge Economy expands the range of issues presented in the
first edition and reflects important new progress in research about
knowledge economies. Readers with interests in managing knowledge-
and innovation-intensive businesses and those who are seeking new
insights about how knowledge economies work will find this book an
invaluable reference tool. Chapters deal with issues such as open
innovation, wellbeing, and digital work that managers and policy
makers are increasingly asked to respond to. Contributors to the
Handbook are globally recognized experts in their fields providing
valuable guidance. This comprehensive and stimulating Handbook will
prove an important resource for practitioners and academics in
diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge management,
innovation management, knowledge policy, social epistemology, and
development studies. Contributors: J. Adelstein, M. Bennett, R.
Bridgstock, S. Clegg, H.-J. Engelbrecht, R. Harwood, G. Hearn, T.
Kastelle, N. Kay, R.A. Lanham, S. Macaulay, J.L. Mast, N. Maxell,
S. Moger, J. Potts, D. Rooney, D. Simoes-Brown, J. Steen, N. Stehr,
R. ten Bos
This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to
social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five
areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the
knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social,
cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital;
knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for
knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management.In presenting
the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables
knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more
systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The
contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible
way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical
concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make
effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also
highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies
such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are
largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical
relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new
insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge
economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and
academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge
management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social
epistemology, and development studies.
Knowledge is a product of human social systems and, therefore, the
foundations of the knowledge-based economy are social and cultural.
Communication is central to knowledge creation and diffusion, and
Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies highlights specific
social and cultural conditions that can enhance the communication,
use and creation of knowledge in a society. The purpose of this
book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are
identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such
frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of
knowledge-based economies - science and technology - and disclose
what drives such economies. The authors employ a trans-disciplinary
approach to explore the nature of knowledge systems or environments
and examine questions regarding the measurement of knowledge.
Lessons are drawn from a variety of perspectives, including the
history of information policy, philosophy, economic history,
sociology, psychology, information economics, complex systems
theory, organisational knowledge theory and political science. This
book will provide policymakers, analysts and academics with the
fundamental tools needed for the development of policy in this
little understood and emerging area.
Examining pathways from creative education to work, and preparation
for these pathways within higher education programs, in the light
of long standing labour debates, this book explores the creative
launch experiences, destinations, and contributions of graduates
emerging into an enormously diverse and heterogeneous creative
workforce. Coming from university degree programs that tend to
focus on the development of specialist creative disciplinary
skills, graduates emerge into the diverse workforce with fairly
narrow career identities. With contributions ranging from
quantitative analyses of large longitudinal data sets to in-depth
qualitative cases, the book aims to provide a range of studies that
speak to the complexity found in creative careers. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education
and Work.
Examining pathways from creative education to work, and preparation
for these pathways within higher education programs, in the light
of long standing labour debates, this book explores the creative
launch experiences, destinations, and contributions of graduates
emerging into an enormously diverse and heterogeneous creative
workforce. Coming from university degree programs that tend to
focus on the development of specialist creative disciplinary
skills, graduates emerge into the diverse workforce with fairly
narrow career identities. With contributions ranging from
quantitative analyses of large longitudinal data sets to in-depth
qualitative cases, the book aims to provide a range of studies that
speak to the complexity found in creative careers. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education
and Work.
This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to
social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five
areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the
knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social,
cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital;
knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for
knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management.In presenting
the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables
knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more
systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The
contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible
way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical
concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make
effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also
highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies
such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are
largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical
relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new
insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge
economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and
academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge
management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social
epistemology, and development studies.
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