Search results for "creative class"
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One Size Fits All?
2010
The creative class thesis put forward by Florida [(2002a) The Rise of the Creative Class and How it's transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books)] has in recent years been subject to vivid debate and criticism. This article applies the creative class thesis onto a Nordic context in order to examine whether Florida's theory proves fruitful in a context different from the US. Based on qualitative data, the paper analyses the role of people climate and business climate for the location of the creative class and firms in three different kinds of regions in four Nordic countries. The analyses demonstrate that the people climate tends to be of secondary importa…
The Importance of Creative Services Firms in Explaining the Wealth of European Regions
2013
This chapter shows the important impact that a specific set of services, those belonging to the creative industries, have on regional economic development and wealth generation. Creative industries are a set of knowledge-based activities focused on the generation of meaning, contents and aesthetic attributes through the use of creativity, skill and talent, and have the potential to create wealth from trade and intellectual property rights. A key hypothesis in this paper is that creative services firms are a “growth driver” that promotes wealth in the regions where they are located. This is due to the fact that firms in creative industries introduce new ideas that are subsequently transferre…
Tożsamość i nastawienie do życia młodzieży akademickiej w dobie popkultury
2017
Warunki, w których żyje współczesny człowiek, mają niewątpliwie istotny na niego wpływ. Kultura popularna obecna dzisiaj prawie we wszystkich dziedzinach życia, oddziałując na ludzi, ukształtowała w nich wiele różnych sposobów myślenia o sobie, przeżywania siebie, stylów życia. Krótko mówiąc, stworzyła wiele rodzajów tożsamości. Naukowcy zwracają również uwagę na to, że obecnie żyjący ludzie bardzo często zmieniają swoją tożsamość, dostosowując ją do aktualnej sytuacji życiowej. Wskazują także na powstanie nowej klasy - tak zwanej klasy kreatywnej, czyli ludzi, którzy całkowicie zmienili swoje podejście do życia, traktowania wielu spraw. Rozdział przedstawia ponadto wartości i sposób trakto…
Tinker, Tailor…: Creativity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
2018
The word creativity has recently won great popularity in numerous contexts, showing both positive (“creative writing”) and negative (“creative accounting”) connotations. The concept itself has many meanings as it may refer to the end product of one’s activity, the cognitive processes involved in the creative act, the personality of a creative person, the development of creativity across the life span, and also the factors that either stimulate or inhibit the process of creation (Łukasik, 2015; Simonton, 2000). There is also a distinction between exceptional creativity, manifesting itself in important works that are significant for a given society, and everyday creativity, which can be obser…
Nordic City Regions in the Creative Class Debate—Putting the Creative Class Thesis to a Test
2010
The Nordic countries have a quite different urban structure and social systems than the USA. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden may then constitute a critical test of the empirical reach of Richard Florida's much cited creative class thesis beyond its empirical basis in the USA. This paper employs comparative statistics to examine the importance of the quality of place in attracting members of the creative class to Nordic city regions, and it analyses the role of the creative class for regional economic development. Florida's original study focused only on city regions with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Our statistical analyses mainly support Florida's results with regard to these larger …
Music Cities. Estrategias para el desarrollo de la economía de la música
2016
El concepto de Music City está adquiriendo relevancia paralelamente al interés sobre el impacto económico de la cultura, especialmente del sector musical comercial, y su creciente importancia en la planificación urbanística. Con la política local y regional postcrisis en el punto de mira, la gestión cultural apoyada en una investigación apropiada posibilita el desarrollo de una estrategia musical que aproveche los recursos creativos e industriales del territorio. Coordinando a las instituciones públicas, la iniciativa privada y la ciudadanía, esta especialización estratégica genera beneficios transversales para la ciudad, aumentando también su atractivo para visitantes y residentes. The con…