Michael A. Peters & Tina Besley 
The Creative University [PDF ebook] 

The concept of the “Creative University” signals that higher education stands at the center of the creative economy indicating the growing significance of intellectual capital and innovation for economic growth and cultural development. Increasingly economic activity is socialised through new media and depends on immaterial and digital goods. This immaterial economy includes new international labour markets that demand analytic skills, global competencies and an understanding of markets in tradeable knowledges. Delivery modes in education are being reshaped. Global cultures are spreading in the form of knowledge and research networks. Openness, networking, cross-border people movement, flows of ideas, capital and scholars are changing the conditions of imagining and producing creative work. The economic aspect of creativity refers to the production of new ideas, aesthetic forms, scholarship, original works of art and cultural products, as well as scientific inventions and technological innovations. It embraces both open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property. This collection explores these ideas as the basis for a new development agenda for universities.

Daftar Isi

Introduction: The Creative University; 1. The Changing Geo-politics of Creativity: Rise of the Post-Confucian University; 2. Beautiful Minds and Ugly Buildings: Object Creation, Digital Production, and the Research University—Refl ections on the Aesthetic Ecology of the Mind; 3. Thinking through the Humanities to the Creative University; 4. Reflecting on a Complex Terrain: Art and Text as Generative Praxis; 5. The Australian Academic Profession in Transition: An Alternative Futures Interpretation; 6. Intellectual Property, Ideology and Culture in Higher Education; 7. Wagers Within the Image: Rise of Visuality, Transformation of Labour, Aesthetic Regimes; 8. Lessons of Subversion: Ethics and Creativity in Neoliberal Academia; 9. Empathy and the Creative University: Finding Hope in Troubled Times; 10. Openness, Closure And Creativity: Knowledge Production in 21st Century Universities; 11. Third-Generation Creativity: Unfolding a Social-Ecological Imagination; 12. Imagining The Creative University: Dispositives of Creation, Strategies of Innovation, Politics of Reality.