[Cc-nz] Australian National Innovation Review recommends Creative Commons

paul reynolds paul.reynolds at mcgovern.co.nz
Tue Sep 9 02:34:00 EDT 2008


Brilliant ­ thanks ­ very timely. Time NZ had a simlar look at this issue.

Paul reynolds
www.peoplepoints.co.nz



On 9/09/08 6:21 PM, "elliott bledsoe" <elliott at creativecommons.org.au>
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> Those interested in open access to public sector information will be excited
> to see the results of a recently released Australian Federal Government Review
> of the National Innovation System, www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview
> <http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview> . The final report, titled
> VenturousAustralia was prepared for Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation,
> Industry, Science and Research, by consultants Culter and Co, headed up by
> industry consultant and strategy adviser Dr Terry Cutler. It places a strong
> emphasis on open innovation, stating in the introduction:
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> "Today innovation is understood to involve much more than the transmission of
> knowledge down the pipeline of production from research to development to
> application. In the age of the internet, with the opportunities for
> collaboration which it opens up, open innovation is increasingly important."
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> Most importantly from an open access point of view, it was Recommendation 7.8
> which is most exciting:
> "Australian governments should adopt international standards of open
> publishing as far as possible. Material released for public information by
> Australian governments should be released under a creative commons licence."
> The full report is available at
> http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/NIS-review-web.pdf
> Just thought I would let you all know
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>          <http://www.cci.edu.au>             The Australia Research Council
> Centre of Excellence for    Creative Industries and Innovation
> <http://www.cci.edu.au>  funds research into Creative    Commons
> <http://creativecommons.org/>  in Australia through the ccClinic
> <http://www.cci.edu.au/projects/creative-commons-clinic>  and the CC and Open
> Content Licensing (OCL) Models
> <http://www.cci.edu.au/projects/creative-commons-and-open-content-licensing>
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>     www.cci.edu.au <http://www.cci.edu.au>
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>          <http://www.qut.edu.au>             Creative Commons Australia
> <http://creativecommons.org.au/>  is    hosted by Queensland University of
> Technology <http://www.qut.edu.au/>  at the QUT Faculty of Law
> <http://www.law.qut.edu.au/> . It is a    research project of the Intellectual
> Property: Knowledge,    Culture and Economy <http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/>
> research stream of    the Law and Justice Research    Centre
> <http://www.ljrc.law.qut.edu.au/> .    www.law.qut.edu.au
> <http://www.law.qut.edu.au/>
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