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PLEASE SEND YOUR FULL PAPERS (6000 WORDS MAX, APA STYLE REFERENCING) TO courtnew@waikato.ac.nz BY 31 DEC, 2012.

PLEASE ALSO INCLUDE YOUR SLIDES IF YOU ARE HAPPY FOR THEM TO BE A PART OF THE ONLINE LITERATURE

Submission of abstracts and papers now closed
Registrations remain open for those wishing to attend the conference 
(Under Registration Tab)

Conference begins 9am Wednesday - ends 6pm Thursday
Programme will be posted within the week (Check Program Pattern Tab)

Wine and Tapas evening sponsored by Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational research
Wednesday 6.30pm at Riverview (Check Wine and Tapas Tab)




Education and research have been transformed in the development of knowledge economies. 

The knowledge, learning and creative economies manifest the changing significance of intellectual capital and the thickening connections between on one hand economic growth, on the other hand knowledge, creativity (especially imagined new knowledge, discovery), the communication of knowledge, and the formation and spreading of creative skills in education. Increasingly economic and social activity is comprised by the ‘symbolic’ or ‘weightless’ economy with its iconic, 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. Developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) not only define globalisation they are changing the format, density and nature of the exchange and flows of knowledge, research and scholarship. Delivery modes in education are being reshaped. Global cultures are spreading in the form of knowledge and research networks. Openness and networking, cross-border people movement, flows of capital, portal cities and littoral zones, and new and audacious systems with worldwide reach; all are changing the conditions of imagining and producing and the sharing of creative work in different spheres. 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 open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property. 

All of this positions education at the centre of the economy/ creativity nexus. But are education systems, institutions, assumptions and habits positioned and able so as to seize the opportunities and meet the challenges? 

This conference investigates all the aspects of education in (and as) the creative economy.The conference objective is to extend the dialogue about the relationship between contemporary higher education and the changing face of contemporary economies. A number of terms describe the nature of the contemporary capitalism of advanced economies: ‘cognitive capitalism’, ‘metaphysical capitalism’, ‘intellectual capitalism’, ‘designer capitalism’. The conference will explore the relationship between the arts and sciences and this new form of capitalism. It will look at the global reach and international imperatives of aesthetic and scientific modes of production, the conditions and character of acts of the imagination in the range of fields of knowledge and arts in this period, and the role of the research university in the formation of the creative knowledge that has a decisive function in contemporary advanced economies.   

Waikato University is proud to host the 'Creative Universities' conference on the 15-16th August, 2012.