Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation

By Chris Bilton and Stephen Cummings

This book is co-written with Professor Stephen Cummings (Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington NZ) and combines Chris’s expertise on creativity and the creative industries with Steve’s insights on strategic management. The book sets out to uncover the connections between the creative process and strategy in business. People tend to think of creativity and strategy as opposites. This book argues that they are far more similar than we might expect. And actively aligning creative and strategic thinking in any enterprise can enable more effective innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organizing for the future. The book is available now via Amazon.co.uk

Chris Bilton is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick

The 6th International Conference on Cultural Policy (ICCPR) Research will take place at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland on August 24 - 27 2010. The conference is organised in association with the International Journal of Cultural Policy, which is edited by Oliver Bennett, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the Centre. Oliver is also a founder member of the ICCPR Scientific Committee.

The Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr David Wright as an Assistant Professor, commencing in September 2009. David joins us from Warwick's Sociology Department - prior to that he spent five years of post-doctoral research with the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University. He gained his PhD, based around a study of work in the book industry, from the University of Nottingham in 2004.