The Centre was formally established in 2005 with core funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Australian Government's main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities, for the period 2005 to 2010.[2] At this time, a series of government-commissioned reports on Australia's innovation system had recently argued for a national commitment to creative innovation.[3] ARC funding was extended, following an ARC review in 2008, for the period 2010 to 2013.[4]
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CCI was the first ARC centre of excellence in the humanities and creative arts.[5] The Centre was based in Brisbane, Australia, at the Kelvin Grove Campus of the Queensland University of Technology.
^See for example, QUT CIRAC (Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre) and Cutler & Co. "Research and Innovation Systems in the Production of Digital Content"Archived 5 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Report for the National Office for the Information Economy, September 2003; Higgs P. and Kennedy T. "From Cottages to Corporations: Building a Global Industry from Australian Creativity. Creative Industries Cluster Study volume 3", Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2004; and House of Reps. "From Reel to Unreal: Future opportunities for Australia’s film, animation, special effects and electronic games industries", Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, June 2004.
^"People". ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.