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The Globalization of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Talent: The Changing Context of Venture Capital Investment

In this paper Richard Florida, Robert Wuebker and Zoltan Acs examine recent patterns of venture capital investment which suggest that the venture capital industry is in the early stages of a profound transformation catalyzed in
part by the globalization of igh-impact entrepreneurship. This change in the allocation of early-stage venture investment has important implications for the financing of young firms, the speed of innovation and technological
transformation, and the locus of long-term economic growth.

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January 7, 2011
International publications

Folha de Sao Paulo del

Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo interviews Richard Florida discussing the way forward for
three major countries where his ideas on creativity are more important than ever – Brazil, the US and the UK.

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January 5, 2011
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

Ottawa Citizen : Top business books of 2010

Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset, makes the top business books list of 2010. Florida’s flood of data forms a nice mosaic of snapshots as he explains how the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression morphed the largely rural, agrarian economy and population of the United States into an urban manufacturing powerhouse.

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January 3, 2011
Creative Class

Examiner : The Creative Class

Interesting perspective for Miami’s economic future, from bestselling author and economic development expert Richard Florida, who finds market trends reveal a rising of the creative class. While Florida acknowledges the difficulty of our current economy, he also depicts the composition for the possibilities.

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November 29, 2010
Cities

Sightline Daily : Term Limits

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Richard Florida examines the changing demographics of cities. Florida’s article points out that many of the cities we have typically called suburbs are transforming themselves from sprawling, car-centric and far-flung places into compact, transit-oriented, and walkable communities.

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October 25, 2010
EconomyInternational publications

Folha de Sao Paulo

Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo interviews Richard Florida discussing the way forward for
three major countries where his ideas on creativity are more important than ever – Brazil, the US and the UK.

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October 21, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

Innovation Ireland Review : The Great Reset

Academic and best-selling author, Richard Florida, has long been documenting how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy. His new book, The Great Reset, says our post-crash prosperity depends on it all the more. One of the critical things for Ireland will be developing strategies and approaches that continue to harness the creativity and innovation of the entire workforce.

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October 20, 2010
International publications

El Pais : Barcelona in the Great Reset

Barcelona has always been as commercial as it is creative. The city of Gaudi and Miro and the young Picasso is also a center of textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive manufacturing, publishing, finance, telecommunications and information technology, of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s this combination that the city and region can build on to survive and prosper through the economic crisis and Great Reset. (Spanish version)

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October 20, 2010
Creative Class

The Huffington Post : It’s the Creative Economy, Stupid

We need to recognize that a whole new economy and society based upon creativity and innovation is emerging and that, as a consequence, it is of vital importance that we reinvent our communities, our schools, our businesses, our government to meet the challenges such major structural shifts present.

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October 19, 2010
Richard Florida Columns

Barcelona in the Great Reset

Barcelona has always been as commercial as it is creative. The city of Gaudi and Miro and the young Picasso is also a center of textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive manufacturing, publishing, finance, telecommunications and information technology, of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s this combination that the city and region can build on to survive and prosper through the economic crisis and Great Reset.

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October 13, 2010
CitiesRichard Florida Columns

Suburban Renewal

Remaking our sprawling suburbs, with their enormous footprints, shoddy construction, hastily put up infrastructure, and dying malls, is shaping up to be the biggest urban revitalization challenge of modern times—far larger in scale, scope and cost than the revitalization of our inner cities.

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October 11, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

The Economic Times : The Great Reset: Richard Florida presents enduring image of America in recession

In his new book, The Great Reset: how new ways of living drive post-crash prosperity, Florida goes beyond economics in his analysis of the affects of global financial crisis. His work is built around the theory of ‘spatial fix’ advanced by neo-Marxist geographer David Harvey in mid-1970s, to describe how capitalism resolves inner crises through geo-graphical restructuring.

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September 24, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

KCRWs To the Point: The economy after the Great Recession

President Obama tries to be optimistic, but concedes that the Great Recession won’t go away fast. Others compare it to the Great Depression as a signal of momentous economic change. Also, scientists decry ruling halting embryonic stem cell research. On Reporter’s Notebook, are interest rates on credit cards going in the wrong direction?

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August 30, 2010
Richard Florida Columns

The New Republic : The Roadmap to a High-Speed Recovery

The fiscal and monetary fixes that have helped mature industrial economies like the United States get back on their feet since the Great Depression are not going to make the difference this time. Mortgage interest tax credits and massive highway investments are artifacts of our outmoded industrial age; in fact, our whole housing-auto complex is superannuated.

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August 12, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Aspen Ideas Festival 2010 – Richard Florida The Great Reset

Richard Florida, author of the new book “The Great Reset” speaks at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival about how new ways of living and working can create a post-recession prosperity.

Florida is the author of the bestseller, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which received the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award and was cited as a major breakthrough idea by Harvard Business Review. He also wrote, “Who’s Your City?” in which he argues that where we live is becoming increasingly important.

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August 5, 2010
Cities

Examiner : Austin area reigns as one of ‘human capitals’ of U.S.

Drawing on data from the Brookings Institution, urban studies guru Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” collaborated with colleague Charlotta Mellander and their team at Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute to come up with the analysis, which put Austin at No. 10 among the cities with the most brainpower.

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August 5, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Advertising Age : Looking Into the Future: Shrinking Houses, a Growing Organic Market and the Importance of Data

In a Q&A with Richard Florida and in his latest book, “The Great Reset,” he talked about how housing is going to change and become a more reasonable part of our budgets. Beyond tanking housing values (and foreclosures) that we see all around us, how exactly is that going to work? Here are the extended outtakes from the interview on the subjects of housing, organic food and the need for more good data.

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August 5, 2010
Employment

TIME : Creating not just jobs, but good jobs

Florida points out that the sorts of service-sector jobs the U.S. is on track to create the most of in coming years—for home health aides, customer service workers, food preparers, retail sales clerks—don’t necessarily pay all that well, and certainly not as well as the manufacturing jobs they are replacing.

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July 16, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

MinnPost.com : Recession recovery: Urbanist says it will mean huge changes in how we live

Richard Florida’s new book, “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.” equates the current moment to the nation’s two earlier major economic meltdowns — the Long Depression that followed the Panic of 1873 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The reset that followed each of those episodes transformed the American geography in ways that fit perfectly into the new model for prosperity. It’ll happen again this time, says Florida, but it won’t be quick and easy.

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July 14, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

TIME : Business Books

A trio of authors agree in their new books about life in the postcrash world. Rather than bemoaning the harsh realities of the Great Recession, they see the downturn as a chance for Americans to enjoy a healthier, greener lifestyle.

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July 6, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

The Miami Herald : Our economic future is not what it used to be

It’s not just a matter of bank failures, spiraling foreclosures, high unemployment and the rest of this mess. Many of us sense that we’re on the cusp of a fundamental shift in our economy and culture. Though most may be in denial, the evidence strongly suggests that the American economy has been propelled and sustained by criminally inflated credit and rampant speculation, and we are on the precipice of a change that will result in a dramatically altered American landscape.

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June 28, 2010
The Great Reset Features and Reviews

Malaysia Star : Resetting economy, society and the world

In his latest book, The Great Reset, Florida recounts causes of the Long Depression of 1870s and the Great Depression of 1930s, and analyses the ensuing social and economical effects – the rise of innovation, changes in infrastructure, geographical resettlement and alteration of ways of living and working. Florida calls these adjustments resets and thinks the next Great Reset will take place soon or even now, if not already.

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June 26, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

New York Post : Out with the old

To Richard Florida, calling today’s economic woes the “Great Recession” doesn’t begin to describe the tectonic forces at work. He believes today’s recession is a “great reset” that will fundamentally change the work we do and the way we do it.

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June 21, 2010
Cities

Tallahassee.com : Our Opinion: Take a bow; back to work

Tallahassee has landed as No. 15 in a listing of the 25 Best Cities for College Grads that was reported by Richard Florida, a frequent visitor to the city and an inspiration behind the Knight Creative Communities Institute (KCCI) that is at work improving the vitality of life in the community.

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June 1, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Newsweek : Blue-Collar Blues

Rather than consign nearly half of the nation’s workers to relatively low-paying jobs, why not use the recession as an opportunity to make over service work into something fulfilling and analytical, hopefully with higher wages? So asks Richard Florida, professor, social scientist, and author. Following the release of his latest tome,The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, NEWSWEEK’S Nancy Cook asked Florida about his vision for “upgrading” the service economy.

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May 18, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

Minyanville : Shrinking the American Dream

We’re going through what University of Toronto urbanologist Richard Florida calls “the Great Reset,” the title of his new book. There is a realization that our consumption-based lifestyle will have to change if we’re to enjoy a sustainable standard of living. Everything is being reevaluated during the Great Reset.

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May 17, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Specific Gravity – The Great Reset

As Michael Lewis explained to us yesterday, there is no question we’ve just been through the worst economic crises since the great depression. As we begin to recover, we all wonder what will be different? What lessons will we take away? It should be clear by now that enough has changed that we can’t solve everything just by regulating Wall Street. We will each have to find ways to reform ourselves and our values to reflect the changing economy, strained resources and a new emphasis on what constitutes real value. All of this is what bestselling author, public intellectual and economic development expert Richard Florida calls The Great Reset.

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May 11, 2010
Richard Florida Columns

USA Today : A search for jobs in some of the wrong places

Richard Florida examines how in a broader creative sector, the United States will add 10 million jobs over the next decade. While the U.S. economy will add more than one million computer and engineering jobs, health care and education are expected to generate more than three times as many jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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May 10, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

The Fiscal Times : A New Name for a New Economy

Richard Florida, author of the new book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, argues that periods of economic distress can ultimately lead to significant demographic change — and that to capitalize on the changes to come, we need to develop and embrace the creative abilities of our citizens in order to take advantage of a nimble new economy.

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May 10, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

PR Web : In The Great Reset, Professor Richard Florida Shows How the Recovery will Transform Jobs, Housing, Transportation, and the American Dream

In The Great Reset, a new book by bestselling author, professor and economic expert Richard Florida shows how the recovery will transform our jobs, housing, transportation, and even the American Dream. We will rent homes instead of owning them. We will have new forms of transportation and infrasctructure to speed the movement of people and ideas. We will live in more densely populated megaregions instead of what we now call cities and suburbs. The hard road to prosperity will bring new innovations that will change our lives for the better.

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April 27, 2010
Creative Class

Sun2Surf : Attracting the creative class

For those who hold strongly to the belief that cities are the engines of development, Florida’s thesis on the clustering of creative people has provided a concrete path to development. What the urban managers and planners have to do is to attract creative people to their cities.

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April 27, 2010
The Great Reset InterviewsThe Great Reset News Articles

The Take Away : Richard Florida on America’s ‘Great Reset’

Even though many economists are proclaiming the “Great Recession” ending or over, the nearly 10 percent of Americans who are unemployed probably find it difficult to imagine exactly what a prosperous, post-recession America will look like. Richard Florida, author of “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity,” says that’s because the crash has fundamentally altered how we feel about spending and saving. He says we’re all in the process of resetting the way we work and live.

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April 27, 2010
Events

Urban Land Magazine : In Years to Come New Real Estate Development Patterns will Evolve

In the years ahead, changes in demographics and consumer behavior will drive new real estate development patterns that reflect a trend toward more urban suburbs, according to industry experts at ULI’s Real Estate Summit at the Spring Council Forum in Boston. Well-known analysts Joel Kotkin, Robert Lang, Richard Florida, and Christopher Leinberger offered different views on what’s ahead, but they all agreed that most of the growth in U.S. urban regions will occur not in downtown cores, but in the suburbs.

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April 21, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

New York Post : After the great recession, could New York be the city of the future?

In the post-bust era, Florida envisions more and more Americans opting not to take on car and mortgage payments, choosing the flexibility of renting and the less stressful commutes of mass transit to free up funds for more culture, more experiences, less living space but more ways to express themselves. In other words, America might be ready to take on more of the qualities of another country entirely: New York City.

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April 19, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

800 CEO Read : The Great Reset

Richard Florida, bestselling author of Who’s Your City? and The Rise of the Creative Class, returns with a much-needed and original vision as we emerge from the economic downturn, illuminating the incredible opportunity our times present for rethinking our future.

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April 19, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

Newsweek : Comeback Country

The tale of the economy’s remarkable turnaround is largely the story of swift reaction, a willingness to write off bad debts and restructure, and an embrace of efficiency—disciplines largely invented in the U.S. America still leads the world at processing failure, at latching on to new innovations and building them to scale quickly and profitably. “We are the most adaptive, inventive nation, and have proven quite resilient,” says Richard Florida, sociologist and author of The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.

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April 12, 2010
Files / Working Papers

Cities, Skills and Wages

This research examines the effect of skill
in cities on regional wages. In place of the extant literature’s focus on human
capital or knowledge-based or creative
occupations, we focus our analysis on actual skills.

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April 8, 2010
Files / Working Papers

Socioneconomic Structures and Happiness

Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow examine the role of post-industrial structures and values on happiness across the nations of the world. They argue that these structures and values shape happiness in ways that go beyond the previously examined effects of income.

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March 11, 2010
Richard Florida Columns

Korea 2020 : South Korea: Moving into the Creative Age

South Korea has clawed its way out of poverty by becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. But to stay a world-class economy will require the country to draw on a different set of skills. In the future, it will be the ability to create—as distinct from the ability to produce—that will foster innovation, and with it, sustainable economic growth. Whether it is new ideas, new business models, new cultural forms, new technologies, or new industries, it is creative capital that will drive the world economy. The ability to harness creativity will be the biggest challenge, as well as the biggest opportunity, for South Korea.

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February 23, 2010
EducationFeatures

New York Times : Does Education Make You Happy?

Richard Florida his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers and found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita. The variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was “human capital,” measured as the share of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

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February 22, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

NPR On Point: : America’s Post-Crash Geography

Big economic events — like the one we’re in now — change the map of America. They make winners and losers. They change where we live and work and what we do.
Acclaimed urban theorist Richard Florida says that on the other side of this economic bust, America’s economic geography will be different. Some cities, towns, regions will roar back to new prosperity. Others, he says, may find a reshaped economy passing them by. Some may be history.

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February 2, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Chicago Public Radio : Forecast; Cities Win, Suburbs Lose?

Urban theorist Richard Florida is the author of the controversial book, The Rise of the Creative Class, which argues that creative people living in densely populated regions are the driving force for 21st century economic development.
More recently, he’s written about “How the Crash Will Reshape America” in the The Atlantic monthly. Florida says the U.S. economy will flourish if we allow it to “reset,” and encourage policies that would concentrate a highly mobile American population in compact cities.

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February 2, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Big Think: How the Creative Class is Affecting the Way Businesses Think

Now more than ever, companies need unconventional thinking to work within the new rules set by the economic recession. Richard Florida has persuasively demonstrated how artists, scientists, engineers, writers, musicians and more can revitalize an entire city from urban decay. With today’s companies in a similar situation, what can members of the Creative Class do for businesses? Discussion of where new hires might come from and the impact they can make.

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February 2, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

CCE: How the Crash Continues to Reshape America

Writing in The Atlantic, I argued that the economic crisis was reshaping America’s economic geography, with big city centers and mega-region hubs like New York City, talent-rich regions like greater D.C., and college towns weathering the storm relatively well, while Rustbelt cities and shallow-rooted Sunbelt economies being much harder hit.

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February 1, 2010
Economy

Albany Times Union : Economic future requires thriving cities

Florida predicts the current Great Recession, like its predecessor international economic crises, “will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the U.S. — and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions”. This may not bode well for the Capital Region.

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January 11, 2010
Creative Class

Management Issues : Leadership for the creative class

The creative class – innovative knowledge workers in all sectors of the economy – will rule the 21st century. So argued social scientist Richard Florida in a seminal article (and later a book), written in 2002. But what does it mean for creative class employees to show leadership? And what does this imply for conventional leadership?

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December 3, 2009
Events

Human Resources Marketer : Dr. Richard Florida Headlines HCI’s National Summit

The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a think tank, professional association and educator in talent management strategies, announced that Dr. Richard Florida, widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars on the shift to the new knowledge economy, will headline HCI’s inaugural National Human Capital Summit, to be held in Chicago April 6-7, 2010.

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December 3, 2009
EnvironmentRegions

Baltimore Sun : Happy to be here

Researchers, Peter J. Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in England, Charlotta Mellander of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and Richard Florida (of “The Creative Class” fame) of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, used data from Gallup’s well-being index to figure out which states are happier than others.

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November 16, 2009
International publications

Finpro Magazine

Finpro Magazine seeks to offer business foresight for Finnish companies, and encourages them to go abroad with their businesses. In the magazine, one way of offering foresight is presenting weak signals and trends that Finpro’s consultant network has collected around the world. One of the five trends presented is “the creative employee”. The article tells about the challenges that the creative employee brings to their leaders with a look at Richard Florida’s ideas on how to manage creative people.

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November 5, 2009
Files / Working Papers

Happy States of America

This report by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Peter J. Rentfrow examines results that suggest that residents of states with high levels of well-being were wealthier, better educated, more tolerant, and emotionally stable compared to residents of states with comparatively low levels of well-being. Analyses indicated that connections between well-being and class structure, diversity, and personality remained after controlled income.

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November 3, 2009
Events

The Business Executive : An interview with Richard Florida

The Business Executive interviews Richard Florida, Author, Who’s Your City and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, will be the keynote speaker at HIEC’s 20th Anniversary event on Nov. 17, 2009.

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October 10, 2009
Events

Fort Worth Business Press : Jimi Hendrix and the future of North Texas

Florida, who spoke Sept. 25 at the University of Texas at Arlington as the first of the school’s 2009 Maverick Speaker Series, is best known for his concepts of the creative class and the idea of urban regeneration and several books on the subject, including The Rise of the Creative Class, Cities and the Creative Class and his latest, Who’s Your City?

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October 5, 2009
CanadaCreative Class

Excalibur : Toronto’s place in the “creative economy”

According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,
Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.If Toronto is serious about maintaining – or, hopefully, improving – its national and international presence in the world’s markets, it may be a good idea to foster an atmosphere that not only attracts such individuals, but also encourages and promotes those ideas and new forms they produce.

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September 24, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

Jackson Free Press : [Stauffer] A 21st Century Boom Town?

In his latest book, “Who’s Your City?.” Florida expands on the work that he’s done in previous books to speak to two audiences. First, the book gives cities a sense of what they need to do to attract and keep the best and the brightest. Second, the book gives guidance to individuals trying to make the very important choice of where they want to live. How does Jackson rank?

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September 16, 2009
Creative Class

Omaha World-Herald

The surge of art galleries in Omaha’s old warehouse district reflects a national trend, said Richard Florida, author of the bestselling book “The Rise of the Creative Class” and a renowned expert on urban renewal and the arts.

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September 10, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

E-Commerce News : Going Global From Rural America

The flattening of the world increasingly makes it possible for anyone to do business from anywhere, as author Thomas Friedman has pointed out. However, that doesn’t mean place is irrelevant to business. In fact, it matters more than ever, according to author Richard Florida. At the intersection of Opportunity and Culture, the concepts of Friedman and Florida collide.

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July 29, 2009
Richard Florida Columns

McKinsey Quarterly : What Matters: Talentopolis

Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and corresponding exodus of traditional lower- and middle-class people from those same places.

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July 20, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

Yahoo : Best Cities for Gen Ys

Where you live is among the most important decisions you’ll ever make argues Richard Florida, author of Who’s Your City? Young singles between the ages of 20 and 29 are looking for a few key ingredients: cities with diverse job opportunities, an abundance of potential life partners, and many universities.

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June 18, 2009
Creative Class

All About Jazz : Music and the Creative Class: A Fruit Fly Industry

Richard Florida gave voice to a movement to revitalize cities by attracting and nurturing the “creative class” . There is no shortage of evidence of the power of the creative class to transform post-industrial cities, but how music, along with the companies that follow and feed it, contribute to the Creative Class is just beginning to get special attention.

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June 3, 2009
Events

Naples Daily News : Richard Florida leaves mark on Naples

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.

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May 22, 2009
CanadaEconomyThe Great Reset News Articles

National Post : Richard Florida goes to city hall, quotes Karl Marx

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.

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May 19, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

Metro News : Ottawa: This ain’t Flint and we ain’t bad

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

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May 15, 2009
International publications

Bilgi Çagi Magazine

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.

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May 11, 2009
Creative ClassEvents

Naples News : Guest commentary: ‘Creative class’ will be key to future economic growth

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.

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May 8, 2009
Creative ClassEvents

Gulf News : A tale of many cities

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.

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May 4, 2009
Canada

The Record : Region suffers from ‘brain drain’

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.

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April 27, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

The Australian : To live and die in Perth

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.

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April 15, 2009
Economy

Shawangunk Journal : If New York Wins . . .

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.”

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April 13, 2009
Who's Your City News Articles

The Vancouver Sun : We must never forget Canada is building on tremendous strengths

In the just-released Canadian edition of his best-selling guide to cities, Who’s Your City? academic Richard Florida says Canada’s urban municipalities need to stop being so humble, because they already have many of the qualities American cities are trying to achieve. They have a strong middle class, relatively safe streets, dense urban footprints, a strong social safety net and well-educated workers.

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April 13, 2009
Creative Class Communities

The Durham News : Arts give monetary, creative boost to economy

Richard Florida published “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which set forth a cluster of indicators that predicted a flourishing urban community. Talent, Tolerance and Technology are Florida’s “three T’s,” qualities that Durham can claim in abundance. “To attract creative people, generate innovation and stimulate economic growth, a place must have all three.” (source: Catalytix, Inc., A Richard Florida Creativity Group)

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April 13, 2009
EconomyHousing

WV Gazette : Dreams to own home die hard

The prediction of death to the American dream of owning a home is replaced by a new landscape of technological and scientific prosperity as seen by writer Richard Florida in his article “How the crash will reshape America”.

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April 9, 2009
Events

Exchange Morning Post : CIGI hosts The Agenda with Steve Paikin

The Agenda with Steve Paikin will be broadcasted from The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on March 30, as part of TVO’s On the Road tour. Through these tours, TVO’s flagship current affairs program is examining the social impact of the current economic down turn on Ontario communities with such special guests as Richard Florida.

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March 30, 2009
EconomyWho's Your City News Articles

The Capital Times : Business Beat: ‘Creative class’ Madison still a favorite of author Florida

Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has always had nice things to say about Madison, Wisconsin. Florida has long argued that communities which offer a stimulating working environment for creative people will thrive in the 21st century. This includes towns that embrace the arts, pop music, gay people and ethnic food.

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March 30, 2009
Economy

PSFK : An Intelligent Redesign of America’s Communities?

In Richard Florida’s recent piece for the Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” he foresees a more concentrated population centered around cities, leading to the further expansion of mega-regions – systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburbs – based on their ability to offer higher paying jobs and attract the best talent.

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March 30, 2009
Economy

Examiner : Arts are an engine of economic sustainability- Create Denver is the fuel

In this month’s Atlantic Monthly, Richard Florida’s piece “How the Crash Will Reshape America” argues that while New York City will be hobbled by the global financial melt-down, it will be in a better position than many other financial centers. A look at Denver’s position and the Create Denver Expo which provided workshops and seminars for local artists interested in learning more about the business, legal and marketing aspects of the creative industries and to meet others in their community exploring the same challenges.

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March 30, 2009
Economy

The Tribue : Grains of sand

A look at Richard Florida’s article in The Globe and Mail revealing the argument that both the American and Canadian governments’ recent stimulus packages are doomed to failure.

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March 30, 2009
Canada

CTV : The budget’s test? What will it do for the future

In February, the Martin Prosperity Institute released a study of Ontario’s economy. Lead authors Richard Florida and Roger Martin suggested the future of “routine-oriented occupations that draw primarily on physical skills or abilities to follow a set formula” is a bleak one.

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March 26, 2009
Events

Cordis Wire : Navarra International Declaration on Talent: Navarra undertakes to manage talent

The First World Forum on Talent, which took place in Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) in February, was the chosen venue for the issuing of this Declaration.
Thought leaders such as Richard Florida and Sir Ken Robinson, international speakers from Europe, the United States, India, Latin America, and, representatives of the European Commission, and the OECD, among others, took part in the Forum.

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March 17, 2009
Housing

NJ.com : When policy blocks progress, change it

The purpose of policy is to produce certain results, but, frequently, once in place, changes in policies are resisted even when conditions require them. Take two examples that have become more obvious in recent days, one with respect to health care, another to housing and home ownership.

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March 16, 2009
Economy

Urban Turf : DC: A Suburb of New York City

In The Atlantic’s cover story entitled How the Crash Will Reshape America, Florida analyzes the changes, by geographic region, that he believes will come as a result of the current recession. Specifically, he predicts that certain cities and urban regions in the US will suffer a “body blow” from which they may never fully recover, while others will emerge stronger and more strategically relevant than before.

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March 5, 2009
Creative Class Communities

The Noosa Journal : Festival a money-spinner

The Great Noosa Camp Out was the first of five projects to come from the Noosa Creative Alliance, developed from Richard Florida’s Creative Communities Leadership Program model. About 30 “catalysts’’ were chosen at the start of the Alliance last year to work on projects to boost Noosa’s economic prosperity by attracting and supporting creative industries.

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March 2, 2009
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The Oregonian : In the Coraline Economy we trust

Urbanist Jane Jacobs’ idea of the successful city is central to the theory — an adaptive place where new ideas and people gather in numbers and then are “tossed together in serendipitous ways,” as Seltzer puts it. This sort of open city attracts creative people, according to the research of author Richard Florida, especially young creative people. And the more of them, the better-placed a city is for the next economy.

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March 2, 2009
Economy

Financial Times : Happy Days For New York’s Psychiatrists

In these tough economic times, it is sometimes hard to think of a silver lining. But Richard Florida – the man who coined the term “the creative class” – proposes an interesting one: that what is bad for financial services businesses may be good for artists and psychiatrists.

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March 1, 2009
Richard Florida Columns

The Globe and Mail : A really new deal would stimulate the economy of the future, not the past

Less than a month after taking office, the Obama administration unveiled its massive stimulus package aimed at recharging the lagging American economy – a staggering three-quarters of a trillion dollars. As the Harper administration rushes to dole out a $40-billion stimulus of its own, it’s high time to ask a simple question: Are we stimulating the right things?

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March 1, 2009
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Tampabay.com : How the crash may reshape us

There’s growing consensus this economic downturn is not only longer, deeper and nastier. It’s becoming clear this recession may prove transforming, potentially changing us personally, regionally, nationally — even globally — in fundamental ways.Once we emerge from this financial firestorm, the Tampa Bay area will have changed. And if it has not, maybe it should.

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March 1, 2009
Canada

Milton Canadian Champion : Education Village part of creative economy: CAO

In a time of economic uncertainty and loss of traditional manufacturing jobs, Milton is looking to prepare itself for a new creative economy with its plans for the 450-acre ‘Education Village’. The Education Village will follow the path outlined in the recently released report, ‘Ontario in the Creative Age,’ authored by noted urbanist Richard Florida and Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

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February 21, 2009
Creative Class Communities

Dayton Daily News : Kevin Riley: Young, creative types could be most powerful people in town

The DaytonCREATE initiative was launched last year with the help of economist and best-selling author Richard Florida. He urges communities that want to thrive economically to recruit and cultivate a “creative class” — artists, musicians, engineers and high-tech workers, all people who think and create for a living. A number of projects have grown out of the work of Dayton’s creative “catalysts.”

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February 21, 2009
Economy

Isthmus Daily Page : Blaska’s Blog: How low can it go? Part II

Blaska’s take on the current financial crisis with reference to Richard Florida and March’s issue of the Atlantic-At critical moments, Americans have always looked forward, not back, and surprised the world with our resilience. Can we do it again? [The Atlantic: How the Crash Will Reshape America]

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February 19, 2009
Economy

The Huffington Post : The Atlantic March 2009 Issue Gets Four Covers

With its March 2009 issue, The Atlantic is targeting metro areas with separate covers specifically tailored to their newsstands. The issue features a cover story by urban studies Richard Florida, best known for his work about the “creative class.” The story is titled, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” and while it points to declines in the suburbs and the Sun Belt, it also reports good news about certain metro areas.

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February 17, 2009
Creative Class Communities

fromtheeditr blog spot : Creating a Creative Roanoke Creatively

Roanoke CCLP to be launched at a two-day seminar for selected leaders where the Creative Class Group will work with the volunteers to build an understanding of the creative economy, the community’s 4Ts (Talent, Technology, Tolerance and Territory Assets), identify strategic economic goals and develop a framework of projects to engage the Roanoke community.

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February 16, 2009
EconomyThe Great Reset News Articles

The Oregonian : After the Crash

Might the crisis roiling the economy reshape the American landscape? Is it a turning point in the country’s social geography? As the economy mends and growth begins anew, what cities or regions will be best-suited to take advantage of the change? Urban theorist Richard Florida has some interesting thoughts on those questions in a major piece in The Atlantic, and his answers are encouraging for Portland and the Northwest.

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February 16, 2009
Economy

The Oregonian : A triple grande recession

Richard Florida writes a cover story for the March issue of The Atlantic called, “How the Crash Will Reshape America.” His theory is that the recession will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the United States, speeding up the fates of some cities and reversing the fortunes of others. Interestingly, he lumps Portland and Seattle with the cities that will fare better than most.

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February 16, 2009
EconomyThe Great Reset News Articles

New York Magazine : How the Financial Crisis Is Good for New York

Florida, who is a scholar and the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, has become semi-famous in recent years for arguing that the U.S. economy is now based on the development and exchange of ideas, and that the best places for that to happen are those that attract and coddle creative, educated people. Places, in other words, like New York.
Florida’s Atlantic piece devotes special attention to New York.

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February 16, 2009
Canada

Toronto Star : An opportunity to be creative

In addressing the current economic crisis, governments should focus on the long term, not demands for quick fixes.
That is the powerful underlying message of the report, Ontario in the Creative Age, jointly authored by Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and urban guru Richard Florida.

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February 14, 2009
Canada

Ottawa Citizen : Ottawa ‘world leader’ of new economy

Urban theorist Richard Florida, author of the global best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class, said Ottawa “is a world leader” in the ascent of what he calls a new, creative economy. Mr. Florida and Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, co-authored a 36-page, $2.2-million study urging the province and businesses to boost education levels, wages, training and creativity as a means to a better economy.

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February 14, 2009
Canada

The Globe and Mail : Help begins at home

The most recent tragedies in a long list at native reserves might spur an opportunity to use the creative thinking advocated by Richard Florida and Roger Martin to turn our backs on old models and start to build healthy, green first nations communities from sea to sea to sea.

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February 14, 2009
Canada

Toronto Star : While markets burn, Ontario dithers

Most attention focuses on federal efforts to combat the global slump. But provincial governments are equally important. They tax almost as much as Ottawa. In total, they spend slightly more which is why this week’s ruminations from Ontario’s Liberal government are so disquieting.

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February 14, 2009
Canada

The London Free Press : To be economic leader, we have to get to work

A new provincial report boosts London as a leader in the new economy. Richard Florida, one of the report’s authors, says, “a handful of cities — from London through Kitchener-Waterloo through Toronto and Ottawa — together comprise one of the world’s largest economic mega regions that helps make Ontario one of the most advanced and productive jurisdictions on Earth.”

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February 14, 2009
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CTV Toronto : Report urges a more creative economy in Ontario

As Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty talks about a low-carbon economy as a competitive advantage and jobs disappear by the tens of thousands, a major report called on the province to unleash its creativity to grow the economy. The report, by Richard Florida and Roger Martin of the Martin Prosperity Institute of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, argues that the economy is shifting away from routine-oriented jobs to creativity-based occupations.

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February 13, 2009
EconomyThe Great Reset News Articles

The New Yorker : A Map of the Future

Florida the urban theorist is making the case in this month’s Atlantic cover story “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” that success will depend on America becoming less like Florida the state, and more like Europe: fewer homeowners, smaller homes, more renters, denser cities, fewer cars. T

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February 13, 2009
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The Atlantic : How the Crash Will Reshape America

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?

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February 11, 2009
CanadaMartin Prosperity Institute

Metro : A new course for new times

A report on the Ontario economy by Roger Martin and Richard Florida says stimulus schemes and handouts may be necessary to prop up the old economy. Our leaders, they suggest, need to capitalize on the current plight to drive home the need to move off the old industrial economy. Start making the big moves to an idea-driven, creative economy based not on goods, but on services. Put the stress on the development of knowledge workers, on research and development, on innovation.

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February 11, 2009
Who's Your City Features and Reviews

St. Louis Commerce Magazine : Book Review Who’s Your City?

Richard Florida presents a potent argument for why a few cities are emerging as extremely successful economic powerhouses, while most are in decline. Florida argues that we are now able to choose a place to live from cities around the country and all one needs to do is match a city’s personality and social possibilities with our individual needs and preferences also arguing that these needs can change with
different stages — early career, raising a family and retirement — of life.

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January 21, 2009
Creative Class

Simcoe.com : Busking evokes sense of place

Florida is a leading advocate of developing culturally vibrant communities, saying they attract the ‘creative classes,’ leading to economic growth by building a city where people want to live, play, work and invest. This would be a refreshing direction, one that could add charm and creativity to downtown Barrie, fostering a ‘sense of place.’

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January 21, 2009
Creative Class

Forbes : A Bailout For Yuppies

Richard Florida, has urged President-elect Barack Obama to eschew crude investments in traditional production and a renewed housing market in favor of goodies directed to what he calls the creative industry.

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January 13, 2009