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.
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.
The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. by Martin Kenney and Richard Florida
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.
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.
This is the first in a series of articles in which The Globe and Mail visits an iconic Toronto neighbourhood or event with Richard Florida.
Richard Florida on his adopted city’s central role in a new world order built not around nations but around mega-regions.
Spark Con, a creative conference in Raleigh and how Richard’s ideas play a role
By Richard Florida, Across the Board: the Conference Board Magazine – Sept 1994
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Industrial Relations Journal – Autumn 1991
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Journal of the American Planning Association – Winter 1992
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Chronicle of Higher Education – July 1991
By Richard Florida, Martin Kenney and Andrew Mair, Economic Development Commentary – Winter 1988
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, California Management Review – Spring 1991
”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
