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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) is a multi-institution research center with its main node at Queensland University of Technology. CCi focuses on the the contribution that the creative industries and their contributing disciplines can make to a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system. It is a broadly-based, cross-disciplinary, internationally focused Centre embracing both fundamental theoretical and highly applied research in media, cultural and communication studies, law, education, economics and business and information technology. The Centre aims to drive the development of Australia's capacity to maximise the national economic and cultural benefits of digital content industries.

CCi was founded in 2005 with nodes operating at Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Edith Cowan University, the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Wollongong. More recently the Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC) at The University of New South Wales joined the centre.

The centre is funded by the Australian Research Council and was the only Centre of Excellence funded the humanities. Before the funding of ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security it was the only Centre of Excellence funded outside of science.

Members
Notable members of CCi include Centre Director Professor Stuart Cunningham, Professor John Hartley, Professor Christoph Antons, Associate Professor Axel Bruns, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Terry Flew, Professor Greg Hearn and Professor Catharine Lumby.

Projects and initiatives
The Centre's research projects are organised into six key program areas:


 * Crisis in Innovation;
 * Creative Workforce;
 * Citizen-Consumer;
 * Enterprise Formation and Sustainability;
 * Legal and Regulatory Impasses and Innovations; and
 * International Creative Content Cultures and Australian Advantage.

Project include:


 * 60Sox;
 * Broadband Public Policy in Australia;
 * Creative Commons and Open Content Licensing;
 * Creative Commons Clinic;
 * Creative digital industries mapping;
 * Creative Industries and Innovation Policy;
 * Creative Industries and the Development Agenda;
 * Creative Workforce 2.0;
 * Development of the Creative Industries in China;
 * Digital Liberty;
 * Firm strategy and innovation in the creative industries;
 * IP Law in Asia;
 * New Literacy, New Audiences;
 * Remix My Lit;
 * Citizen Consumers, Creative Participation; and
 * Youthworx

Collaborating or Contributing Organisations
Institutions which have a node of the Centre are:


 * Australasian CRC for Interaction Design;
 * Australian Film, Television and Radio School;
 * Edith Cowan University;
 * Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology;
 * Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC) at The University of New South Wales; and
 * The University of Wollongong.

Other participating organisations include:


 * The Australian National University;
 * Charles Darwin University;
 * Screen Australia (formerly Australian Film Commission);
 * The Salvation Army;
 * State Library of Queensland;
 * The Australia Council for the Arts;
 * Australian Museum;
 * National Museum of Australia; and
 * Queensland Museum.