Canada continues to lag far behind the U.S. and other leading nations in startups and venture capital — but it doesn’t need to be that way.
adminNovember 19, 2015
Our mission is to create more innovative, inclusive and resilient cities
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.
adminNovember 19, 2015
Rana Florida on supporting women in the workforce and what the current crop of presidential candidates have to say about the crisis of women in the workforce–and the productivity gap that their low participation is causing.
adminNovember 19, 2015
Richard Florida ranked among the most influential business thinkers in the world on a list known as the “Oscars of management thinking”.
adminNovember 12, 2015
Richard Florida among three University of Toronto professors and business leaders placed in the top 15 in a recent ranking of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers.
adminNovember 12, 2015
The Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years and is the essential guide to which thinkers and which ideas matter now. Richard Florida ranked 14 of 50 top global thinkers.
adminNovember 12, 2015
To demonstrate its commitment to all these interwoven urban issues, it’s time for the government to create a new body – a “ministry of cities,” which would spearhead these interwoven initiatives while signalling to the world that this country is ready to lead the ongoing century of cities.
adminNovember 9, 2015
Collative Spotlight interview with best selling author and entrepreneur Rana Florida.
adminNovember 5, 2015
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.
adminNovember 5, 2015
In her recent book Upgrade, Florida tackles the future of our careers and how individuals can utilize their experience and expertise, leading them to a fulfilled, confident and involved future.
adminNovember 3, 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.
adminOctober 15, 2015
Newly released, our study, Canada’s Urban Competitive Agenda: Completing The Transition From Resources To A Knowledge Economy, shows that the Canadian economy is built on two distinct models with two distinct geographies. Natural resources drive the West, while knowledge and creativity propel development in the East.
adminOctober 12, 2015
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.
adminOctober 12, 2015
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.
adminSeptember 29, 2015
At the DX Intersection event, The Design Exchange celebrates an individual or partnership that exemplifies creativity, outstanding talent, and innovative vision. Rana Florida interviews this year’s DXI awardees interior designers, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg
adminSeptember 28, 2015
Recently asked how to differentiate good from great, Rana Florida in learning from the greats, identifies her top ten ways to go from good to great.
adminSeptember 23, 2015
Cities are the fundamental drivers of entrepreneurial innovation and economic growth. So why does Ottawa insist on ignoring them?
adminSeptember 21, 2015
Study after study has shown that the Olympics cost cities substantially more than they bring in, and can drain local economies and government finances for years.
adminSeptember 9, 2015
Best pratices from business executives.
In her new book, Upgrade, Rana Florida aims to provide readers with the tools to achieve success in work and life. It gathers best practices from CEOs and other business executives, as well as entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers and creative leaders. This excerpt is from the chapter titled The Power of We.
adminAugust 31, 2015
The city’s growth will require innovation, creativity and investment to be sustainable.
adminAugust 5, 2015
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.
adminAugust 5, 2015
The bigger an industry grows, the more need for disruption it seems. Fast and nimble, flexible and innovative, don’t work in bureaucracies that are bogged down with rigid processes and procedures, and where the customer always seems to come last. I can think of any number of industries that are ripe for disruption. Here are five of the softest and juiciest targets.
adminAugust 3, 2015
NYU Study Uncovers the Keys to Keeping NYC Competitive: Innovation, Creativity & Investment
adminJuly 28, 2015
In 2009, Brock University’s Niagara Community Observatory produced a policy brief that pointed out the main reason Niagara had a low proportion of young people was because we are not attracting our share of young people from other areas.
adminJuly 22, 2015
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.
adminJuly 16, 2015
Over 300 people turned out at the College for Creative Studies to participate in CREATE: Detroit, the inaugural ideas fest on place making and cities, led by world-renowned urbanist and professor Richard Florida and sponsored by Rock Ventures.
adminJuly 14, 2015
The article marries Michael Porter’s industrial cluster theory of traded and local clusters to Richard Florida’
s occupational approach of creative and routine workers to gain a better understanding of the process of economic development. By combining these two approaches, four major industrial – occupational categories are identified.
adminJuly 3, 2015
This month a new idea festival for city buildings and urbanists will take place in Detroit. The inaugural CREATE: Detroit will feature several key speakers sharing best practices and ideas for how to build creative and more inclusive cities.
adminJune 24, 2015
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.
adminJune 22, 2015
Keeping the Gardiner East up is a false solution for Toronto’s worsening traffic woes. Tearing it down, meanwhile, would create a world of opportunity.Taking down the Gardiner East is the most fiscally prudent and economically viable option available to the city, writes Richard Florida.
adminJune 10, 2015
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.
adminJune 10, 2015
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.
adminJune 10, 2015
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.
adminJune 8, 2015
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.
adminMay 26, 2015
Detroit will host the inaugural CREATE: Detroit festival in June, an event intended to bring together city builders and municipal planning experts from around the nation to share best practices on how to build inclusive and creative urban districts.
adminMay 26, 2015
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.
adminMay 20, 2015
LE Miami, The Rebels 2015 brought to you by Travel+Leisure and the Miami Beach Edition. This year’s shortlist will be drawn up by a group of creative class influencers, brought together by chairwoman, Rana Florida.
adminMay 20, 2015
The CEO and founder of The Creative Class Group, Rana and Richard Florida, on the ongoing evolution of the creative consumer; rebellious leadership; and the future of travel.
adminMay 14, 2015
Spanish interview with Richard Florida on the Great Reset and the development of cities.
adminMay 7, 2015
Rana Florida profile. This globe-trotting innovator has many titles – CEO, Author, Editor, Cultural Curator – but one clear message: embrace risk and you will succeed.
adminMay 4, 2015
Catalyst asks Richard to share his insights on the ‘multiplier’ effect of the creative class and why local public officials should leverage arts and culture as policy tools for fostering unique and thriving communities from the ground up.
adminApril 29, 2015
SKIFT speaks with Florida after the Start Up City Miami event to hear how this urban disruption in downtown cores is impacting cities as tourism destinations, and how tourism bureaus can potentially shift their narrative to support them better.
adminApril 28, 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
adminApril 2, 2015
Future presidents and CEOs are more alike than you’d think. Use these leadership secrets from contenders for the biggest startup of all, America.
adminMarch 31, 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