Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity and Urban Growth

By M. Storper, A. Scott. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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Staying Power: What Influences Micro-firm Survival in Tourism? (2013, background): “Therefore, routines are also place-specifically distinct – sharing many characteristics within the same institutional system but differing across institutions (Gertler 1997; Storper & Scott 2009).”
Emerging cities of the third wave (2011, background): “tive city (Cooke and Lazzeretti, 2007; Currid, 2006; Landry and Bianchini, 1995; Storper and Scott, 2009).”
Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy (2013, background): “According to Storper and Scott (2009), the interesting theoretical question about the genesis of cities is not so much where the initial seed of development is planted (e.g., from first-nature resources, via an initial technological/commercial breakthrough, or at random), but how the seed then…”
Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms' propensity to innovate (2015, background): “, 2013); the individual’s creativity in innovation (Storper and Scott, 2009); founders’ human capital (Gimmon and Levie, 2010) and leadership’s essential role in developing innovation throughout the organisation especially in SME innovation (McAdam et al.”
Creative industries, new business formation, and regional economic growth (2009, background): “As discussed by Storper and Scott (2009) some studies (including Florida and Gates, 2001; Florida, 2002) found a positive association between diversity and regional growth, under the assumption that a tolerant milieu is more likely to be conducive to creativity provided that talented people have a…”
On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation (2015, background): “Third, these sectors attract highly skilled and cognitively skilled human capital (Storper and Scott, 2009) and the presence of such human capital in a region is likely to be crucial to resilience to any form of shock.”
Smart cities: implications of urban planning for human resource development (2011, background): “For example, Storper and Scott ( 2009 , 153–4) argue that these approaches are ‘devoid of any consistent analytical description of the factors underlying the origins of urban centres’ as they cannot prove that ‘purported preferences are real … and that they really underlie the alleged resulting acti”
Does urban form matter for innovation productivity? A national multi-level study of the association between neighbourhood innovation capacity and urban sprawl (2019, background): “While this line of research share argues that knowledge-based and creative firms follow knowledge and creative works, Storper and Scott (2009) argue that the presence of anchor businesses and institutions is the force influencing skilled labour mobility and consequential growth.”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “…have followed in the footsteps of Romer (1986, 1990) and Lucas (1988), with a focus on the role of endowments of knowledge and human capital in explaining innovation and growth differentials (Andersson and Karlsson 2007; Storper 2010; Storper and Scott 2009; Capello and Nijkamp 2009; Harris 2011).”
A Network-based view of regional growth (2014, background): “As Storper and Scott (2009) argue ‘knowledge has a tendency to grow indefinitely, for it can be endlessly re-used, is extremely leaky (and hence its circle of users continually expands), and can be combined and recombined in virtually unlimited ways.’”
Smart City and Smart Tourism: A Case of Dubai (2017, background): “Smart cities can achieve key objectives using resources that are dependent on the deployment of ICT and governance mechanisms founded on transparency, customer centricity and efficiency [12].”