University-Industry Research Centers, Federal Science Policy and the Research University by Richard Florida, Wesley Cohen and Lucien Randazzese.
adminDecember 28, 2008
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Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City?” and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, sees the gravitational pull away from Wall Street and toward more creative industries as part of a necessary economic recalibration.
adminDecember 28, 2008
Richard Florida visits Russia this month and discusses the country’s push to develop more of a market-based economy, having abandoned its state-run economy to the historical dustbin as well as drawing upon the similarities between the youth of both Russia and the U.S.
adminDecember 28, 2008
This article by Richard Florida seeks to shed light on the factors that shape the organization of scientific research in profit-seeking enterpises.
adminDecember 18, 2008
The study has explored the factors driving globalization in the automotive industry and has begun the task of exploring the effect of globalization on the quality, quantity and location of jobs in that industry.
adminDecember 18, 2008
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.
adminDecember 16, 2008
The differing ways a recession affects Ontarians working in different sectors of the economy is the focus of the Martin Prosperity Institute research bulletin presented today to Michael Bryant, Minister of Economic Development, for the Government of Ontario.
adminDecember 15, 2008
The Rise of the Creative Class, one of Gary Hamel’s recommendations that “telescope the future or send our minds racing down new tracks.”
adminDecember 14, 2008
Toronto-based urban theorist Richard Florida believes Ontario’s economy is at a turning point. He was asked by Premier Dalton McGuinty to map a path to long-term economic success.
adminDecember 14, 2008
The relationship between economic growth and a strong arts presence in a community has really been stirred up by Richard Florida’s book The Rise of the Creative Class.
adminDecember 12, 2008
Leading intellectuals including urban planning experts, architects, senior governmental advisors, municipality officials and CEOs of major corporations have been confirmed as speakers for the 2009 edition of Global City being held 7 – 8 April, 2009 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.
adminDecember 12, 2008
The first in a series of three columns on The Creative Economy written by Couleur NB President David Hawkins.
adminDecember 12, 2008
Kevin Stolarik who works closely with Richard Florida spends a lot of time thinking about cities, the people who live there and why they live there.
adminDecember 2, 2008
In Who’s Your City, I make an argument about the importance of “place” in the global economy and how it is creating a spiky world…
adminDecember 1, 2008
Restarting economic growth this time around will require a new social and economic framework that is in line with the new idea-driven economy.
adminDecember 1, 2008
Richard Florida and James Milay explore the the effects if a recession hits Canada suggesting that the continuing shift in Canada’s economy from traditional blue-collar, working-class jobs to creative and service jobs will dampen the effects of job losses over all, but those in the working class will feel the pain much more.
adminNovember 24, 2008
According to Richard Florida, jobs are moving to people, not the other way around and our fundamental notions about the economy are not holding up.
adminNovember 14, 2008
Richard Florida warns of an extended period of volatility and conflict in American politics.
adminNovember 2, 2008
Gainesville is frequently described as a creative community by its leaders due to its university, artistic, and technological influences. Who’s Your City? and how it applies to Gainesville.
adminNovember 2, 2008
A municipality can spark the creativity of its community, as well as attract the entrepreneurial “creative class,” by investing in projects that offer a sense of style, place and opportunity for self-expression, Dr. Richard Florida told municipal and community leaders at an event hosted by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce, the University Partnership Centre at Georgian College, Downtown Barrie and the city.
adminOctober 29, 2008
Richard Florida and Gail Lord explain why cities, and their cultural institutions, are the 21st century’s engines of prosperity.
adminOctober 27, 2008
Richard Florida believes Montreal region’s lumbering government structures are holding the region back. He cited them as one cause of Montreal’s oft-cited immobilism.
adminOctober 23, 2008
Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), as a jump start, for the U.S. to retain its stature as an open and welcoming home for talent.
adminOctober 22, 2008
Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world’s most talented students and workers to come here, they’ll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities—as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment.
adminOctober 22, 2008
Richard Florida’s take on Montreal and it’s position amidst the current economic storm.
adminOctober 18, 2008
Richard Florida speaks at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, Michigan suggesting market turmoil is a sign of fundamental economic change.
adminOctober 14, 2008
Richard Florida is an expert on the role that cities play in economic growth. In his best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class, The Flight of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, he argues that the strength of the 21st century economy lies in tapping the power of cities as places where creative people live and work.
adminOctober 2, 2008
Great cities speed up their metabolic rate to defy the previous generation’s imagination.
adminOctober 1, 2008
Richard Florida says New Brunswick may be lightly populated and relatively rural, but the province is well positioned both economically and geographically to do well in a continually shifting fiscal and social climate.
adminOctober 1, 2008
Leading social theorist Richard Florida believes New Brunswick’s cities need more creative people.
adminOctober 1, 2008
A study, by professor John Solow in the Tippie College of Business, ranks all of Iowa’s 99 counties in a Creativity Index based on the one developed by economist Richard Florida, author of the national bestseller “The Rise of the Creative Class.”
adminSeptember 24, 2008
In 2002, with his best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida kick-started a national conversation about cities can attract the kind of people that will help them grow and compete.
adminSeptember 24, 2008
Where we choose to live is one of the most important decisions we make in life, according to Richard Florida.
adminSeptember 24, 2008
A new study by a University of Iowa economics professor suggests that Iowa counties with a higher concentration of people who are part of the so-called “creative class” have stronger prospects for economic growth.
adminSeptember 17, 2008
In this edition of Global Business Peter Day hears from Professor Richard Florida of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada, where he’s the Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.
adminSeptember 16, 2008
Given the chance to upgrade neighborhoods, live closer to family or relocate for a better job, many people wouldn’t hesitate. Last year, close to 40 million people moved in the United States, according to U.S. Census data released this month.
adminSeptember 14, 2008
Richard Florida asserts in his book The Rise of the Creative Class that today’s regional economic growth is driven by the location choices of creative people, who prefer places that are diverse, tolerant, and open to new ideas.
adminSeptember 10, 2008
”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