Key Concepts in Creative Industries - Paperback

by John Hartley (Author), Jason Potts (Author), Stuart Cunningham (Author)

This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.
- Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University

"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers in the field. This book is a clear, comprehensive and accessible tool-kit of ideas, concepts, questions and discussions which will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike. Key Concepts in Creative Industries is set to become the corner stone of an expanding and exciting field of study"
- Chris Barker, University of Wollongong

Creativity is an attribute of individual people, but also a feature of organizations like firms, cultural institutions and social networks. In the knowledge economy of today, creativity is of increasing value, for developing, emergent and advanced countries, and for competing cities.

This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team of experts, it presents readers with compact accounts of the history of terms, the debates and tensions associated with their usage, and examples of how they apply to the creative industries around the world.

Crisp and relevant, this is an invaluable text for students of the creative industries across a range of disciplines, especially media, communication, economics, sociology, creative and performing arts and regional studies.

Author Biography

John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture & Technology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is author of Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies (SAGE).

Jason Potts is Professor of Economics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia; winner of the Schumpeter Prize; and author of Creative Industries and Economic Evolution (Edward Elgar, 2011).

Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Professor of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia; Director of the CCI; and author of Hidden Innovation (UQP, 2013).

Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications at QUT, Brisbane, Australia, and author of The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012).

Michael Keane is Associate Professor of QUT, Brisbane, Australia; Principal Research Fellow at the CCI; and author of China′s New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Investment (Routledge, 2011).

John Banks is Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia; Course leader for the Masters in Creative Industries (MCI); and author of Co-Creating Videogames (Bloomsbury, 2012).

All of the authors are researchers with the Australian Research Council ′Centre of Excellence′ for Creative Industries and Innovation (the CCI).