This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity design research higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts of performance of aesthetics in general and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the creative economy to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate postmarket notions of open source public space.