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Martin Prosperity Institute : Startup City Canada : The Geography of Venture Capital and Startup Activity in Canada

Startup City Canada examines venture capital activity in Canada, identifying its leading cities and metros and mapping its urban orientation in the county’s three largest venture capital hubs: Toronto, Vancouver,and Montréal. This report is part of a larger, ongoing research project tracking the urban geography of venture capital and start-up activity.

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November 19, 2015
CanadaEventsUrban

Urban Toronto : Richard Florida Diagnoses A New Urban Crisis at ULI Symposium

Taking the stage to deliver a keynote address at the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) inaugural Toronto Symposium, renowned urbanist Richard Florida wasted no time in proclaiming his admiration for Toronto, celebrating his adopted city as a global leader in urban renewal and the arresting of urban sprawl. Yet, for all of Florida’s enthusiasm about Toronto, the speech diagnosed a cresting urban crisis, proving to be an alarming call to action rather than a celebration of the city’s accomplishments.

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November 5, 2015
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The Global Creativity Index 2015

This report presents the 2015 edition of the Global Creativity Index,
or GCI. The GCI is a broad-based measure for advanced economic
growth and sustainable prosperity based on the 3Ts of economic development
talent, technology, and tolerance. It rates and ranks 139 nations worldwide on each of these dimensions and on our overall measure of creativity and prosperity.

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October 15, 2015
Rana Florida - In the NewsRana Florida Upgrade Features, Reviews and News

The Collative Pro Blog : Book Review – Upgrade by Rana Florida

This week we are bringing you something different, and that is a book review. Here at Collative Pro, reading is something that we do every day and we want to share some reviews on the books we read. Hopefully they can be as helpful to you as they have been to us. So lets kick off with the first book review – Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary By Rana Florida.

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October 12, 2015
CanadaRichard Florida Columns

Toronto Life : The Best (And Worst) Places to Live

A ranking of Toronto’s 140 neighborhoods—a definitive document that separates the great from the good, the average from the awful. We teamed up with the urbanists, economists, sociologists and information scientists at the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank at U of T’s Rotman School of Management. They crunched every stat they could drum up: census data, community health profiles, the Fraser Institute’s school report cards, the Toronto Police Service crime figures and independent studies.

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September 29, 2015
CanadaOpinion EditorialsRichard Florida ColumnsTalent, Technology and Tolerance

The Globe and Mail : Still lacking technology and talent, Canada’s tolerance offers creative edge

Canada ranks fourth in the world in a new ranking of the world’s most creative and economically competitive countries. The survey, put together by my research team at the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute, places Canada behind only first-place Australia, the United States and New Zealand. This is the third version of these rankings we’ve done, and Canada is up from its seventh-place finish in 2011.

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August 5, 2015
Files / Working PapersUrban

NYU Furman Center : We Need a New National Urban Policy

Beyond the interventions that Sampson describes, we need an urban policy that is attuned to this new reality—and that can help to change it. What we need is a new growth model that is as ambitious and as far-reaching as our post-World War II commitment was to creating a middle class. We need to re-knit the safety net and ensure that everyone has access to good, family-supporting jobs that are the equivalents of my father’s factory job.

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July 16, 2015
CreativityProfiles and Interviews

Deloitte Magazine : Creativity for the new economy

For professor and journalist Richard Florida, the most restless people in the planet are building a new world. In
this new world, excessive consumption and unrestrained use of natural resources are replaced by continual
innovation. In this exclusive interview to Mundo Corporativo, he explains why creativity, innovation, and human development are crucial to keep thriving in the economy of the future.

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June 22, 2015
CREATE: DetroitRana Florida ColumnsRana Florida Columns: City

The Huffington Post : Lessons From Other Cities at Detroit’s Global City Forum

What lessons can we learn from Detroit’s and other cities’ struggles to remake themselves? That is the question that will be at the heart of CREATE: Detroit, the first of what will become an annual ideas fest. Hosted by the renowned urbanist Richard Florida and the Creative Class Group in partnership with Rock Ventures, Shinola, M1/DTW, and Planterra, the program will bring together city builders, city leaders, place makers and urbanists from across North America to share their insights and best practices for building and rebuilding more creative and inclusive cities.

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June 10, 2015
CREATE: Detroit

Crain’s : City builders to gather for Create: Detroit ideas festival

Leading city builders and urbanists from around the world will gather in Detroit later this month to share ideas and best practices for how to build creative, inclusive cities. Create: Detroit, hosted by urban studies theorist Richard Florida, the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, as well as Creative Class Group and presenting sponsor Detroit-based Rock Ventures LLC, is billed as an ideas festival.

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June 10, 2015
CitiesCreative ClassCreativityProfiles and Interviews

Uniplan : Read : Richard Florida: The Creative City

In 2002, the American economist and sociologist Richard Florida published the book “The Rise of the Creative Class”, which became a bestseller. Florida made a close connection between the future development of cities and the development of the “creative class”: Cities will flourish if they are able to attract these rising stars of the 21st century and persuade them to be long-term residents.

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June 8, 2015
CREATE: Detroit

CREATE: Detroit Press Release

Rock Ventures and Creative Class Group Partner to Bring CREATE: Detroit to Motown. As the city is rising and reurbanizing, Detroit will host the inaugural CREATE:Detroit, an ideas festival featuring leading city builders and urbanists from across the globe,to share best practices and ideas for how to build creative and more inclusive cities, on Tuesday, June 30 from 2:00-6:30 p.m. at the College for Creative Studies.

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May 26, 2015
CREATE: DetroitRana Florida ColumnsRana Florida Columns: City

The Huffington Post : A World-Class Global City-Building Forum: The First-Ever in Detroit

At the first annual Create: Detroit, by the Creative Class Group and sponsored by Rock Ventures, he will moderate panels with city-leaders, city-builders, place-makers, urbanists, and urban journalists from across North America, who will share what they’ve learned from their own ventures and observations in Miami, San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Las Vegas, and of course Detroit.

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May 20, 2015
EuropeInternational publications

Halpern : Hotlist April 2015

This month’s Hotlist introduction comes from Richard Florida, international bestselling author, professor and urbanist who amongst many other pursuits founded the Creative Class Group. He is an all-round global think tank genius.”
Jenny Halpern Prince

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April 2, 2015

The Creativity index appeared to be one of the best metrics to understand sales performance at Cirque. And correlation are strong, therefor we will be now using this metric to anticipate sales performance and better forecast.

Alexandre AlleMarket Insight Advisor, Cirque du Soleil