The Economic Geography of Talent

By Richard Florida. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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What attracts and retains knowledge workers/students: The quality of place or career opportunities? The cases of Montreal and Ottawa (2010, background): “According to Florida (2003), places gain a creative advantage from their ability to attract people from a wide range of backgrounds.”
The Role of Human Capital in Lowering the Barriers to Engaging in Innovation: Evidence from the Spanish Innovation Survey (2014, background): “Skills refer not only to scientific and engineering qualifications, but to a wider range of training backgrounds from law and management, to arts and design, all of which contribute to creative problem solving (Florida, 2002).”
Talent, creativity and regional economic performance: the case of China (2010, background): “Other studies (Florida 2002b; Florida et al. 2007; Lee et al. 2004; Acs and Armington 2006; Audretsch et al. 2006; Mellander and Florida 2007) show that human capital is associated with innovation or entrepreneurship, which further contribute to economic development (Schumpeter 1934; Baumol 1968).”
Smart cities: implications of urban planning for human resource development (2011, background): “Florida (2002a) asserts that access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron was to steel making and it determines where companies will choose to locate and grow, and this in turn changes the way cities can compete.”
The innovative performance of firms in heterogeneous environments: the interplay between external knowledge and internal absorptive capacities (2018, background): “In areas that manage to develop themselves into knowledge hubs, productivity gains emerge from the clustering of talented people (Florida, 2002).”
Quality of Life in the Economic and Urban Economic Literature (2007, methodology): “In this framework, Florida (2002) discusses the importance of high quality goods and services referring to them as "quality of place" - in attracting highly-skilled labour in US cities.14 Following the growth models of Lucas and Romer, Florida's underlying assumption is the importance of knowledge a”
Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity and Urban Growth (2008, background): “Florida (2002, 2003, 2004) has proposed that attracting and retaining a ‘creative class’ is fundamental to regional economic dynamism.”
Regional innovation systems and the foundation of knowledge intensive business services. A comparative study in Bremen, Munich, and Stuttgart, Germany (2006, background): “Last but not least, low entry barriers for talent (Florida, 2002) and soft factors attracting highly qualified people (e.g. in the Munich region) are an important precondition for a positive development of the KIBS sector.”
Creative Class and Regional Growth: Empirical Evidence from Seven European Countries (2007, methodology): “Florida has been criticized because it is almost impossible to clearly distinguish which occupations are creative and which are not (Markusen 2006). Florida (2004) defines creative people as workers who are engaged in identifying problems, figuring out new solutions, and combining pieces of knowledg”
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study (2014, background): “Another geographic effect theorized by researchers, especially Florida (2002, 2004, 2012), is that the underlying talent of an area's population can affect the relative creative productivity of a geographic area.”
Residential location choice of knowledge-workers: The role of amenities, workplace and lifestyle (2013, methodology): “On the basis of focus group interviews, Florida (2002) proposed a thesis regarding the role of cultural amenities and lifestyle in the residential choice of knowledge-workers, and concluded that knowledge-workers desire amenities different from traditional ones and that the median housing price at…”