This scoping study includes a detailed review of local, national and international policy relating to arts, education and innovation and case studies of innovative and best practice schools education programs delivered by eighteen contemporary arts organisations in Australia and the UK.

It also contains a set of recommendations for how contemporary arts organisations can work with schools to educate for innovation. Together with education sector consultation it has been informing the development of a three-year pilot program to be delivered by PICA from 2011 - 2013 in partnership with a number of metropolitan and regional primary and secondary schools in WA.

This pilot program will allow primary and secondary school students to directly engage with professional artists and the latest in contemporary arts practices (including those in dance, theatre, music, visual arts and new media). It will be carefully monitored and its impact and effectiveness evaluated over a number of years by Edith Cowan University.

The program will allow young people and their teachers to cultivate the values and culture of innovation and develop high levels of creativity, self-efficacy, energy, risk-propensity, leadership, resilience, tolerance of ambiguity, intuition and questioning.

This is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation