Report Summary: Ontario’s Opportunities in the Creative Age by Richard Florida and Roger Martin.
adminMay 27, 2009
Our mission is to create more innovative, inclusive and resilient cities
To help power the local economy, The Economic Development Council of Collier County established Project Innovation, a series of programs which concluded with Richard Florida’s presentation in May 2009.
adminMay 26, 2009
Richard Florida discusses how creative business decisions will help Canada
withstand the recession at the 11th annual CMA Alberta Accountability Summit
on May 22, 2009, at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary.
adminMay 25, 2009
The best-selling author gave hope to community and business leaders looking to build a new and better economy in Collier County.
adminMay 22, 2009
Richard Florida speaks to the Economic Development Council of Collier County in Naples. His words have inspired community and business leaders and left them thinking about how to achieve what he calls the three “Ts” for economic growth: technology, talent and tolerance.
adminMay 22, 2009
Mark Thoma points to San Francisco Fed research on the lasting effects of the past decade’s run-up in consumer debt and current “deleveraging” on the U.S. economy and American consumers.
adminMay 22, 2009
Toronto’s economic development committee invited Prof. Florida, an American academic and author now at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, to enlighten on the way out of the current global financial crisis. Richard Florida went to Toronto city hall to tell councillors that improving the lot of service-sector workers is key to the city’s prosperity.
adminMay 19, 2009
The opportunities that have the best long-term prospects are not warehouses in the middle of nowhere, but a dense, healthy downtown that mixes uses, welcomes artists, leverages the university and college, and brings creative people together to solve problems. Can this become Hamilton?
adminMay 19, 2009
Richard Florida visits Naples as part of Project Innovation, a community-wide project the Economic Development Council of Collier County launched to build an action plan for a better economy.
adminMay 19, 2009
This spring’s 2.3 million newly minted college grads are understandably worried about their economic future. So where are this year’s college grads heading? A recent survey lists the best places for college grads to launch their careers.
adminMay 18, 2009
Richard Florida references Ottawa is a forward-looking mecca for what he calls the “Creative Class” the highly skilled, highly mobile knowledge workers he sees as key to economic productivity now and in the future.
In the Canadian edition of Who’s Your City?, Florida puts diverse, tolerant Ottawa well ahead in the global competition for such brainpower
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida’s research on mega-regions provides a potentially useful framework for thinking about where and how to invest in a national high-speed rail system.
adminMay 15, 2009
Announcement of Richard Florida’s addition to the Atlantic’s team of correspondents and bloggers.
adminMay 15, 2009
Transportation infrastructure plays a big role in economic development by opening up new spaces and by allowing for the redevelopment of old spaces in more intensive ways.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida has a new blog on the Atlantic website. His first post is about a new Pew poll on American consumption patterns that Felix Salmon and the Economist and others have commented on.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida writing for the Atlantic thinks high speed rail development is key to economic recovery. He says economic recovery will come through “a new period of geographic expansion – or what geographers term a ‘new spatial fix.'”
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida to visit Toronto’s economic development committee for a brainstorming session on ways out of the current global slump.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida overlays the proposed high speed rail network on his map of megaregions and makes some very good points.
adminMay 15, 2009
The main cause of the new foreclosure wave appears tied more to the real economy than to the financial mess.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida’s opinions on innovation and tolerance in Turkey’s monthly magazine of Turkish Informatics Foundation. The mission of the magazine is leading Turkish companies to grow with innovation.
adminMay 11, 2009
Best-selling author and urban theorist Richard Florida, in his new book, “Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life,” suggests that despite technology and globalization, the dictatorship of location is not over, and place is not only important, it’s more important than ever.
adminMay 8, 2009
Will Wilkinson, a research fellow at Washington’s Cato Institute wrote this terrific essay on Toronto’s largely successful experiment in immigration – its global-straddling ethnic mosaic.
adminMay 8, 2009
One of the nation’s foremost experts in economy building says that a community seeking a strong and healthy commerce must tap into the creativity of all its members. Author and adviser Richard Florida will bring his message to Naples on May 20, 2009 when he addresses community and business leaders at a program entitled “It Pays to Be Creative,” part of the ongoing Project Innovation sponsored by the Economic Development Council of Collier County.
adminMay 8, 2009
Working Paper Series: Martin Prosperity Research prepared by Richard Florida, Charlotta Melander, and Tim Gulden on the role of cities and metropolitan areas.
adminMay 4, 2009
The world needs to grow in a way that it can meet the needs of today while preserving the resources for tomorrow. Global City 2009 held in Abu Dhabi recently highlighted some seminal issues confronting urban development – and the way cities must tackle them.
adminMay 4, 2009
Best-selling author and urban theorist Richard Florida, in his new book, “Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life,” suggests that despite technology and globalization, the dictatorship of location is not over, and place is not only important, it’s more important than ever.
adminMay 4, 2009
According to the cover story in the March edition of The Atlantic, renting benefits the economy. The article, written by Richard Florida, says that renters aren’t tied down to one location, so they’re freer to move from town to town as emerging industries and new jobs dictate. The also don’t have the long-term burden of a mortgage.
adminApril 30, 2009
A study from the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute says the Kitchener area underperforms against similarly situated cities in North America in educational attainment and in keeping graduates of its college and universities from leaving the area after graduation.
adminApril 27, 2009
This recession is a “great reset” that offers Canada a chance to emerge from the shadow of its reeling southern neighbor, says Richard Florida
adminApril 25, 2009
Michigan, the national leader in recession, depends on an auto industry that will never be as big as it was. So how does the Detroit area diversify? Who’s hiring, or investing in something new? Morning Edition reports on Detroit’s desperate race to replace the jobs that the automakers eliminate.
adminApril 22, 2009
Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” and “Who’s Your City,” urged broadcasters gathered in the Las Vegas Hilton at the annual National Association of Brfoadcasters event to view upheaval in the economy as an opportunity.
adminApril 21, 2009
Economic Development Council of Collier County’s Project Innovation Program is bringing Richard Florida to headline its “It Pays to be Creative” program in May 2009.
adminApril 21, 2009
Interview with Richard Florida at the recent events in Schio and Maniago, Italy hosted by Nordesteuropa Editore SRL.
adminApril 19, 2009
Tim Harford finds out why deciding where you live could be the most important decision of your life.
adminApril 17, 2009
Richard and Rana Florida recently invited a cross-section of Torontonians to their ultramodern Rosedale home to celebrate Ms. Florida’s recent appointment as a board member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
adminApril 15, 2009
Globe-trotting city theorist Richard Florida and wife Rana find a home to love perched on a Rosedale ravine.
adminApril 15, 2009
In this excerpt from the Canadian edition of “Who’s Your City?” author Richard Florida argues that, while Canada’s cities have done well to avoid some of the economic disparities of U.S. cities, they will need to work harder still.
adminApril 15, 2009
In his new book Who’s Your City?, Florida makes the case that deciding where to live is possibly the most crucial life decision a person can make, right up there with what to do for a living, who not to marry, and whether to have kids or just keep renting. Older generations accepted their geographic place as a given.
adminApril 15, 2009
Sharon Rapoport shares the final four ideas from the Roanoke Richard Florida Creative Connectors 2 Day Seminar on how to change the region for the better.
adminApril 15, 2009
Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, says Canadian cities need to “stop being so humble” and see themselves as global models of exactly the sort of livable communities the U.S. desperately needs.
adminApril 15, 2009
Arts and culture can play key roles in Europe‘s economic recovery, agreed politicians, EU officials and arts experts attending the Prague Forum for Creative Europe, one of the main events of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
adminApril 13, 2009
Countering the prevalent gloom, The Atlantic’s provocative March 2009 front cover asks “How The Crash Will Reshape America,” with a counter-intuitive sub-title reading “The Sunbelt Fades, New York Wins.”
adminApril 13, 2009
Richard Florida, the urban theorist and author of the seminal book, The Rise of the Creative Class, is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
adminApril 13, 2009
Which of Ontario’s cities are better prepared for the profound transformation into the creative age? To better understand how Ontario’s city regions are competing the Creative Class Index was used to compare them to peer city regions of roughly equal size from across the US and Canada.
adminApril 13, 2009
There is currently a flurry of media attention on Detroit as a haven for enterprising young artists. Can artists really save a piece of a “ruined city,” a “dying city,” a city that has defied all other attempts at renewal? What has yet to be acknowledged, however, is how an artistic revival of Detroit might present the city with challenges in its very success.
adminApril 13, 2009
”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