[Air-L] Fwd: Creativity: Innovation and Industry

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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> From: Thom Corah <tcorah at DMU.AC.UK>
> Date: October 24, 2007 9:56:25 AM CDT
> To: CREATIVEINDUSTRIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Creativity: Innovation and Industry
> Reply-To: creativeindustries <CREATIVEINDUSTRIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>
> Hi all,
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> Apologies for cross posting
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> I am pleased to announce advance details of a one day conference on
> creativity to be held on 6th December at De Montfort University in
> Leicester. Brief details are below, with more available from the  
> website
> at http://cii.dmu.ac.uk <http://cii.dmu.ac.uk/> .
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>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Thom Corah
>
> Research Assistant
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> Creativity East Midlands
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> De Montfort University
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> Creativity: Innovation and Industry
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> Enhancing creativity, innovation and productivity
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> A one day symposium exploring creativity
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> 6th December 2007
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> De Montfort University
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> Advance Notice
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> No company ever cost-cut its way to greatness. Creativity is the  
> path to
> greater productivity, new products, and new services. Sustained  
> success
> in business depends on the ability to innovate. Creativity  
> shouldn't be
> restricted to the 'creatives', it needs to flow through the entire
> company.[1]
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> "To compete successfully in the global economy, we must foster a  
> dynamic
> environment with innovative and creative businesses at its heart."[2]
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> This one day conference will look at how new technologies and new ways
> of thinking can be applied to successful business innovation. There  
> are
> four main themes.
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> *	What is creativity?
> *	How can we be more creative?
> *	How does innovation happen?
> *	How is creativity managed successfully in business?
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> To explore and answer these questions will be thoughts,  
> experiences, and
> insights from four distinguished speakers.
>
>> Prof. Margaret Boden
> (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile276.html)
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>> Dr. Claudia Eckert (http://www.edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/cme26.html)
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>> Frank Boyd (http://www.unexpectedmedia.com/)
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>> Toby Moores (http://www.sleepydog.net)
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> There will also be a parallel strand of workshops should you choose to
> learn in a more practical way. These will be
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>> Enhancing Creativity: a creativity assistant
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>> Creative Collaboration: face to face
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>> Speaking the language of creativity
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>> Creative techniques
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> For more information please visit http://cii.dmu.ac.uk
> <http://cii.dmu.ac.uk/>
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> ________________________________
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> [1] Cox Review of Creativity in Business
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> [2] Regional Economic Strategy for the East Midlands, EMDA
>

jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

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