Prof. Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), was invited by the Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research (C-Centre) to give a talk titled Soft Law, Governance and the Developmental State: Assessing Creative Industries Strategies for Developing Countries on 12 September 2012 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). In the CCI, he heads the Convergent Media Policy research program, and is engaged in the Asian Creative Transformations research program. He has also been engaged with many major research projects in Australia such as Social Media and Crisis Communication.
In the public talk, Prof. Flew discussed the state of play on creative industries as a policy strategy, highlighting the recent work by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and others on the scope for developing countries to adopt creative industries strategies for national cultural and economic development. He also explored the renewed focus on governance and state capacities, with particular reference to the concept of “soft law” and the institutional conditions for more effective cultural policy strategies that target development of the commercial creative industries sectors.
At Prof. Flew’s talk.
Prof. Joseph Chan, Director of the C-Centre, presented a souvenir to Prof. Flew.
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