InfoCenter – Tagungen

Die Tagung wendet sich ganz bewusst nicht nur an Wissenschaftler/innen, sondern auch an Leute aus der Praxis. Die Veranstalter:

The event aims to be a platform to debate the knowledge and research available in this field and discuss the potential development of the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) as the creative economy becomes central to the UK economic development.

It aims to be multidisciplinary and to involve researchers, academics, practitioners and policy makers at regional, national and international level. The key research questions that the network aims to address are (among others):

What is role of HEIs in developing human capital (graduates) for the creative economy?

How do creative graduates' perform in the economy?

What kind of skills and experiences are valued by the creative job market?

How are universities developing their curricula in order to address these issues?

What is the relationship between human capital and the creative economy?

What are the evidences in favour of one theoretical framework or the other?

What value does HEIs add to the ‘creative economy'?

What is the broader impact HEIs in the creative economy?

Papers are invited to address and discuss issues around the role of HEIs in the creative economy. Some key themes to be addressed will include:

• The role of cultural production and provision in HEIs;
• Creative graduates and their contribution to the local economy;
• The role of knowledge transfer between HEIs and the creative industries;
• Creative industries and HEIs: what kind of business interactions?;
• Connection between HEIs and creative city policies;
• Attraction and retention of creative graduates in local economies;
• HEIs strategies in the creative economy.

Tagungsbeiträge können bis zum 10. Februar 2010 eingereicht werden.

Kontakt: Dr. Roberta Comunian