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New Hampshire Union Leader Staff, Benjamin Kepple comments on Manchester’s rankings per Who’s Your City?
adminMarch 9, 2008
For decades we’ve heard that new transport and communication technologies – from the street car to the Internet – would make geography and place irrelevant…
adminMarch 9, 2008
It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup.
adminMarch 8, 2008
The 32 local “creative class catalysts,” the moniker given to volunteers given to grow a creative class in Dayton and Springfield areas, announced five initiatives for spurring the area’s economy
adminMarch 7, 2008
NOOSA and the Sunshine Coast are among Australia’s leaders when it comes to attracting and retaining creative talent, according to the findings of a research report commissioned by the Noosa Creative Alliance.
adminMarch 5, 2008
The way we house people today seems a bit out of sync with other demands of our highly mobile and flexible economy.
adminMarch 5, 2008
Hamburg May 2008 – Identity Management : Richard Florida Keynote Speaker. In a globalized world, the importance of place will increase rather than vanish. Where we live is becoming an increasingly important aspect of our lives.
adminMarch 3, 2008
Richard Florida ranks St. Lucia 4 out of 5 for best places for retirees to live in new book, “Who’s Your City?”
adminFebruary 25, 2008
…this thought-provoking and seminal work will surely be studied, not only by scholars but more importantly by consumers pondering a move…
adminFebruary 24, 2008
This research note authored by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander is part of a large scale project on the music industry and system.
adminFebruary 22, 2008
Nations have long been considered the fundamental economic units of the world, but that distinction no longer holds true. Today, the natural units -and engines- of the global economy are megaregions, cities and suburbs in powerful conurbations, at times spanning national borders, forming vast swaths of trade, transport, innovation and talent.
adminFebruary 20, 2008
In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.
adminFebruary 13, 2008
The old model of a university pumping out research results and educated students, or even commercial innovations and start-ups, are no longer sufficient. Business and political leadership have taken technology seriously; now, they must do the same with talent and tolerance. The places that don’t will find that the discoveries and talent they produce will continue to migrate away.
adminFebruary 9, 2008
In January 1992, Carnegie Mellon University undertook a project, in collaboration with the Technology Development and Education Corporation, called “Design for High Performance Manufacturing Infrastructure”. The objective of the project was to analyze and invigorate the supplier base and manufacturing infrastructure of Southwestern Pennsylvania…
adminJanuary 10, 2008
What is the role of venture capital in industrial competitiveness? On the one hand, venture capital has played a crucial role in the emergence of innovative entrepreneurial enterprises and high-technology regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston’s Route 128 corridor. On the other hand, a number of commentators have suggested that venture capital contributes to a pattern of chronic entrepreneurship and the breakthrough illusion of U.S. high technology which have a negative implications for U.S. technological and industrial competitiveness.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
The research that led to this report was commissioned by the Council of Great Lakes Governors in 1992 to provide a fresh look at the competitiveness of the Great Lakes Economy. The goal was to identify strategic areas in which collaboration among business and government leaders could accelerate the economic revitalization that had begun.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
A Report by the Sustainable Economic Development Project. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. For the Sustainable Pittsburgh Initiative.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Dr. Richard Florida, Mark Atlas. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA
adminJanuary 10, 2008
The Project. The report that follows is the product of the Urban Competitiveness Systems Synthesis Project of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Wherever one looks -in semiconductors, computers or biotechnology- the story is the same: The United States achieves a commanding lead in basic research, develops the start-up companies that pioneer cutting edge technologies, and then somehow fails to follow trough, leaving nations like Japan to mass-produce the products that the world wants.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Venture capital investment is a critical component of high technology economic growth. Although investment is perhaps the most important dimension of venture capital activity, there is virtually no literature on it…
adminJanuary 10, 2008
The research upon which this chapter is based was undertaken in three parts. The first part involved the compilation of a comprehensive database of transplant assemblers and suppliers in the US…
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Picture America. What do you see? The hustle and bustle of New York with Wall Street, the theatre district and bohemian neighbourhoods…
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Since the early 1980s, State, local and regional economic development strategies have faced an accelerating pace of technological change, new patterns of work and production organization. The globalization of technology and markets is transforming economic development as we know it.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Housing finance provides telling insights into the political economy of any advanced industrial economy. It is integral to the performance of capital markets, reflective of the role of the state in the economy and illustrative of the priority placed on producing affordable housing.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. by Martin Kenney and Richard Florida
adminJanuary 10, 2008
In this paper, the comparative responses of the USA and Japan to the rise of the new high-technology industries are examined. The United States pattern mainly revolves around the rise of high-technology districts like Silicon Valley and Route 128 which comprise dense networks of small entrepreneurial firms and other related institutions.
adminJanuary 10, 2008
Capitalism is undergoing an epochal transformation from a mas-production system where the principal source of value was physical labour to a new era of innovation-mediated production where the principal component of value creation, productivity and economic growth is knowledge and intellectual capabilities.
adminJanuary 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