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Entries by Richard Florida from 07/2012

The Creative Compact

| Posted 07.10.2012 | Business
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The tectonic upheavals our economy is enduring are the result not just of financial shenanigans by the global One Percent, but of a deeper and more fundamental shift -- the passing of the old industrial order as it gives way to the emerging Creative Economy.

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Canada's Most Creative Cities

| Posted 07.12.2012 | Canada
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In this exclusive excerpt for HuffPost from Richard Florida's new book, the author reveals that scientists and engineers, architects and designers, artists and entertainers and the growing ranks of professional knowledge workers -- what he labels as The Creative Class" -- now number more than five million in Canada, or roughly 30 per cent of the workforce. So where do they live?

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Canada's Greatest Competitive Advantage? Our Creativity

| Posted 07.19.2012 | Canada
Read More: Workforce, Toronto, Jobs, Immigrants, Canada, Tolerance, Recession, Creative Economy, Creative Age, Creative Compact, Prosperity, Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Richard Florida, Martin-Prosperity-Institute, Technology, Creative Class, Canada News

2012-07-19-RichardFloridabook.jpg We are living through a massive structural transformation of the economy, similar in scale and scope to the shift from the Agricultural to the Industrial Age. Canada is shifting from the Industrial to the Creative Age, in which creativity has become the decisive source of competitive advantage.

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