Cities and the Creative Class
This is a super interesting article with some great data to back up its statements. Below are my thoughts on the article discussion questions:
1. How would Florida define entrepreneurship? What would he think of innovative entrepreneurship vs. replicative entrepreneurship?
2. What lessons can you learn from the second article?
3. If Richard Florida and Ken Robinson were in a room together, what would they discuss?
Florida would define entreprenuership as clustering of creative people to innovatively solve problems. It seems that he is defining the shift between the Industrial Age of work and the new technological and knowledge-based economy that requires those who can think for themselves and provide new ideas, solutions, processes and products to an ever-changing business and education environment. As I was reading I kept thinking about Silicon Valley and how expensive it is to live there and yet how creatively productive that area has been for many decades. It attracts people who understand the mindset of technological problem solving and value creation.
It seems that Florida would correlate innovative entrepreneurship with this increase in creative clusters of knowledge workers such as university professors, engineers, scientists, artists, marketing professionals, etc. Replicative entrepreneurship he refers to as traditional corporate communities which makes me think of my grandpa who worked for IBM almost his whole career in a very replicative environment even though he was involved in high-tech. Now creative clusters of people can work together easily throughout the world and the geography is only one definition of the cluster. For example, many innovative college professors and even secondary teachers use blogs, wikis and other web-based tools to collaborate across the world and provide research, experience and solutions to the ways education can be improved to create more creative and solutions-oriented students. If Florida and Robinson were in a room together they would probably discuss how an increased focus on creativity and the clustering of creative, proactive, solutions-oriented, student-focused teachers could create real and lasting changes in education without the structure or system of education changing as quickly since that always seems to be the difficulty. In short, they might conclude that human capital plus encouraging creativity clusters form an impenetrable mass that will create radical shifts in the learning economy.
1. How would Florida define entrepreneurship? What would he think of innovative entrepreneurship vs. replicative entrepreneurship?
2. What lessons can you learn from the second article?
3. If Richard Florida and Ken Robinson were in a room together, what would they discuss?
Florida would define entreprenuership as clustering of creative people to innovatively solve problems. It seems that he is defining the shift between the Industrial Age of work and the new technological and knowledge-based economy that requires those who can think for themselves and provide new ideas, solutions, processes and products to an ever-changing business and education environment. As I was reading I kept thinking about Silicon Valley and how expensive it is to live there and yet how creatively productive that area has been for many decades. It attracts people who understand the mindset of technological problem solving and value creation.
It seems that Florida would correlate innovative entrepreneurship with this increase in creative clusters of knowledge workers such as university professors, engineers, scientists, artists, marketing professionals, etc. Replicative entrepreneurship he refers to as traditional corporate communities which makes me think of my grandpa who worked for IBM almost his whole career in a very replicative environment even though he was involved in high-tech. Now creative clusters of people can work together easily throughout the world and the geography is only one definition of the cluster. For example, many innovative college professors and even secondary teachers use blogs, wikis and other web-based tools to collaborate across the world and provide research, experience and solutions to the ways education can be improved to create more creative and solutions-oriented students. If Florida and Robinson were in a room together they would probably discuss how an increased focus on creativity and the clustering of creative, proactive, solutions-oriented, student-focused teachers could create real and lasting changes in education without the structure or system of education changing as quickly since that always seems to be the difficulty. In short, they might conclude that human capital plus encouraging creativity clusters form an impenetrable mass that will create radical shifts in the learning economy.
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