Examples of the Impact of Collaboration in Creative and Technological Practices

Introduction

This work explores the opportunities and experiences that occur in multi–disciplinary scenarios where the product of collaboration fits broadly within a definition of the creative industries. The primary focus is upon the real–world implications and incidents of integrating people and practice across two axes: creativity and technology.

Moore’s Law implies that overall processing power for computers doubles every 1.5–2 years, or less. A similar rate is also observed for telecommunications bandwidth. Although a general guide rather than a fundamental law, it has proved remarkably consistent since the implementation of the first semiconductor integrated circuit in 1960.

Extrapolation, confirmed by expert evaluation of the technologies, confirms that for the immediate future, Moore’s Law indicates that computational power will continue to increase at current rates, bringing more speed and capacity to handle more sophisticated applications and end–user requirements. It enables online collaboration to take place in a seamless and instantaneous manner, and at lower cost.

Where a variety of inputs are needed from different disciplines in order to further a research area, mechanisms for collaboration are necessary. In addition, the norms, concepts, and practices of research in each discipline need to be understood across the boundary. Multi–disciplinary, inter–disciplinary, and trans–disciplinary research, are identified by Holzbaur et al. (2012) as different aspects of collaboration across boundaries.

Page (2008) claims that cognitive diversity enables groups to find better solutions and also facilitates finding solutions when the problems are complex. Thus, collaboration across discipline boundaries may yield more groundbreaking results than collaboration within a discipline.

The aim of this article is to present and analyze key metrics of features that form creativity in creative industries by drawing upon existing models from the world of business with the intention of establishing the extent to which manifest themselves in creative multidisciplinary scenarios. Furthermore, we intend to provide insight into where these developments are likely to develop and evolve, principally via the use of social media and Internet–based technologies that allow enhanced engagement and acceleration of creative activity.