Preliminary Material / Tina (A.C.) Besley and Michael A. Peters -- The Creative University: Creative Social Development and Academic Entrepreneurship / Tina Besley and Michael A. Peters -- Agile Methods for Agile Universities / Michael B. Twidale and David M. Nichols -- The University Beside Itself / Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner -- Intellectual Property: Oxymoron or Antinomy / R. J. Clougherty Jr. -- Towards a Unified Concept of Distance Learning / Luke Strongman -- Using Ricoeur to Interpret Acts of Imagination in a University Physics Class / Joy Whitton -- Independence Interrupted: Creativity, Context and the ‘Independent Scholar’ / Robyn Barnacle , Jennifer Sinclair and Denise Cuthbert -- On the Outside Looking in: The Creative University and Its Poor Relation, Private Training Establishments / M. J. Stuart -- Ignorance in a Knowledge Economy: Unknowing the Foreigner in the Neoliberal Condition / Sonja Arndt -- Emergentism and Social Realism / Leon Benade -- Troubling the Idea of the Individual: Advancing a Relational Context for Creativity / L. Maurice Alford -- Neoliberalism, Privatizaton and Education in the Republic of Nepal / Chandra Sharma Poudyal -- Toward a Quaternary Level of Creative Education / Roger Peters -- Contributors / Tina (A.C.) Besley and Michael A. Peters.

The creative university is a new concept that has a number of competing conceptions emphasizing digital teaching, learning and research infrastructures, the paradigm of intellectual property, creative social development and academic entrepreneurship. Not only does the concept include the fostering and critique of creative content industries and new forms of distance and online education but more fundamentally it refers to a reassessment of neoliberal strategies to build the knowledge economy. The economic aspect of creativity refers to the production of new ideas, aesthetic forms, scholarship, original works of art and cultural products, as well as scientific inventions and technological innovations. It embraces open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property. All of this positions education at the center of the economy/ creativity nexus. But are education systems, institutions, assumptions and habits positioned and able so as to seize the opportunities and meet the challenges? This book uses different contexts to explore these vital issues.

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