John Vines, the Chair of Innovation and Business Skills Australia welcomed more than 100 invited contributors to the conference. In giving an overview of the conference, John stressed, "We have targeted participants for the conference so as to tap a broad range of industry, government sector and business insights."
The purpose of the conference, he said, was to "Gain some strategic outcomes from our conversations today that will inform IBSA's future strategic approach."
The conference offer a great opportunity, he said, "To distil industry's views, not only about skill requirements, but also about business drivers and the infrastructure necessary to support 'innovation economies'."
"This high-powered gathering of thought leaders and delegates allows us to capture the essence of what needs to be done to enable a culture of innovation to flourish in this country"
John introduced an opening address video from the Minister for Vocational and Further Education, the Honourable Andrew Robb AO, MP.
Please click here for a sound recording of the address.
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As leading innovation and creativity researcher Csikszentmihalyi notes, sustained creativity (required for innovation) requires that the creator has a comprehensive understanding of their field. That is a thorough knowledge of the discipline and its capabilities is essential so you can develop new meaningful and useful modifications to the exisiting manifestation of that discipline. Logical really but in the present training environment where many of the enrichment components that allow for a genuinely rich understanding of a discipline are missing innovation is not likely to result.
I have also in my teaching experience identified that a focus on creative application in a discipline should underpin all stages of training and development rather than applied after the student has a achieved a certain level of knowledge and skills in a discipline. In fact if you approach a discipline with a rules mentality and then try and alter this this to a cretaive one you will fail.
Anne
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