Acknowledging and celebrating new energy around critiques of Australia's National Innovation System, this paper explores the design of an innovation system that would harness energy from the Creative Industries. The notion that the Creative Industries are an important element of Australia's innovation system has not, it seems, been self-evident.

Teaching-for-creativity is rarely an explicit objective of the learning and assessment process. In Europe, collaborative research projects have been recently set up to address this lack of acknowledgment or explicitness. Australian universities lag behind in this respect. However, Australian HEIs are now showing increasing commitment to creative capacity building as an outcome of undergraduate teaching.

Music curricula have become increasingly systematised in universities. This means that students may be segregated into class groupings that do not naturally support active participation in knowledge sharing, networking, moving between expert groups, socialisation and professional success. This may result in students graduating still unprepared for professional workplaces.

This paper by Arthur ter Hofstede, Michael Rosemann, Marcello La Rosa and Katherine Shortland considers recent developments in the field of business process management. Such developments have made it possible to effectively deal with large collections of process models that exhibit many similarities but also context-dependent differences. In this paper these developments are exploited in...

Creativity is known to be of central importance to the generation of new ideas, new ways of working and innovation. Creativity and the harnessing of creative capital are essential for the success of firms, in fields as diverse as the creative industries and multi-media to computing, engineering, architecture, science and technology and in public sector...