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How Do I Get This Idea Right?

Coolnomics® is a business school for cool people. We teach MBA-level commercial strategy and creative direction in the one place.

For Founders

We don't ask for your CV. We ask where your idea is up to.

No strategy goes in a drawer. In every program, you start making changes to your business in week one.

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Corporate Coolnomics®

For Your Organisation

Teach your team to make their ideas more compelling and to think through a commercial lens, whether they're developing a marketing program, a new product or a technology innovation.

Twenty-Five Years in the Room With

Queen Victoria Building · Disney · Google · Tourism Australia · NSW Health · Art Gallery of NSW · City of Sydney · SXSW Sydney · Machine Hall · Louis Vuitton · Prada · Nike · Fort Street Capital · Australian Financial Review · Australian Fashion Week

The Coolnomics Principles

Will This Idea Work?

The coolest version of an idea is also the most commercially valuable one.

We studied 250 ideas across human history that turned culture into capital. Five principles explain why they worked. Every idea at the school is read against them.

01

Relevance

Now · Lineage · Always

02

Emotion

Felt · Neuro · Aesthetics

03

Trust

Truth · Proof · Originality

04

Money

Model · Scale · Resilience

05

Ethics

Human · Earth · Influence

If an idea is aligned with the cultural zeitgeist, emotionally potent, trusted, well commercialised and good for the world, then it is classified as Coolnomics. It has the economics of cool at play.

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The Founder

Twenty-Five Years of Real Ideas With Real Consequences

Robyn Wilson

I am a commercial strategist and creative director, turned economic theorist.

Born on a cattle farm in Mudgee, NSW Australia and raised in Western Sydney, I am passionate about connecting the intellectual with the practical, and the established business world with the next generation of ambitious pioneers.

About Robyn

25 Years

Live application across brand, culture, corporate transformation and education.

33 Million

Annual visitors to the QVB. ASX-listed, publicly reported figure.

$50 Million

New commercial value identified for Superora Strategy Studio clients.

25 Clients

Led as CEO of Superora Strategy Studio over five years, with a global team of 25.

"Robyn Wilson has a talent for bringing people together and getting things done. You feel smart when you talk to Robyn, like she's doing something really cool and you understand it really well. So you might just be really cool as well."

Concrete Playground · Editorial

Coolnomics began as an economic theory.
Then it became a philosophical body of work.
Now it is a commercial strategy practice
for developing, scaling and valuing ideas.

Traditional business treats
cool and money as a paradox.
Coolnomics treats them as a dialectic:
a synthesis of relevance, emotion,
trust, money and ethics.

The Lab

Where the philosophical thinking gets published.

The Theory · Codex Vol 1

The Economics of Cool

How cultural resonance converts into commercial value. Five principles, drawn from 250 ideas across the whole of human history.

Robyn Wilson
September 2026
About 30 minutes

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Working Paper

The Idea and the Zeitgeist

Founders and leaders holding an idea the world hasn't caught up to yet.

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Case Study

QVB

A heritage icon with 33 million reasons to get the strategy right.

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Case Study

Zohran Mamdani

A democratic socialist ran for mayor of New York City. He won. Then he governed.

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Cohort 1 · Applications Open Soon

The Fellows Program

Eight weeks. You write the commercial strategy for your idea, in a room of people doing the same.

Starts 18 January 2027 · Eight Weeks · Live Cohort · A$2,950By Application

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