Professor Greg Hearn is Interim Director of the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT. He has been a pioneer in detailed mapping and integration of the creative industries into innovation policy and is a chief investigator on the recently awarded (2005) Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Creative Industries and Innovation.
In 2005 he was an invited member of a working party examining the role of creativity in the innovation economy for the Australian Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council. His work also includes applications development and evaluation of new technologies and services in the creative industries. Currently, he is a chief investigator on a number of applications development projects currently funded by ARC Linkage grants (e.g. Sticky.net.au: the Youth Internet Radio Network).
These grants have been documented in scholarly publications and books, notably The communication superhighway: Social and economic change in the digital age (1998: Allen and Unwin), and Public policy and the knowledge economy: Foundations and frameworks (2003: Edward Elgar), The knowledge economy handbook (2005: Edward Elgar). His research outputs (5 books, 80 refereed papers or book chapters) bridge across psychology, economics, media and communication studies, cultural studies, forecasting, and management.
Hearn also has extensive industry experience through research collaborations, commercial research, and consultancies. He was a consultant to the Broadband Services Expert Group, the national policy group that formulated Australia’s foundational framework for the internet in 1994, conducting industry mappings for the health sector and telework.
Over 2 decades he has successfully negotiated and executed many high level industry research projects. He has authored or co-authored over 20 major research reports including a national study of digital content industry research and innovation system, in association with Cutler and Company, for the Federal Department of Communications IT and the Arts in 2003. Additionally, he has been involved in high level consulting and applied research examining new media and industry/organisational forms for more than two decades, with organisations including British Airways, Hewlett Packard, and many Australian national and state government agencies.
This information has been contributed by Professor Greg Hearn.
