Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander look at the roll of human capital and occupation based measures in shaping cross-national economic performance.
adminNovember 13, 2009
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow in this work aim to replicate and extend previous work by examining the geographic distribution and correlates of well-being within the US.
adminNovember 9, 2009
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.
adminNovember 5, 2009
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.
adminNovember 3, 2009
Richard Florida asserts that the world is “spiky”-with talent, innovation and creativity clustering in mega-regions that are increasingly powerful drivers of the global economy.
adminNovember 2, 2009
Richard Florida speaks for the Ontario Hospital Association in Toronto November 17, 2009 along with other keynote speakers Michael Moore, Newt Gingrich and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
adminNovember 2, 2009
Richard Florida speaks at the Creative Places + Spaces Conference in Toronto billed as “one of the world’s leading forums on creativity”.
adminNovember 1, 2009
Richard Florida speaks at the third-ever Creative Places + Spaces event in Toronto along with Mayor Miller and Sir Ken Robinson.
adminNovember 1, 2009