Geography of Innovation: Why Nashville Is Music City
Quality of interaction trumps density of interaction any day, and the Tennessee capital has a critical mass of talent from all over the world.
Why Technology Firms Are Moving Downtown
Young and inexperienced (and cheap) talent has never wanted to live in the suburbs. It's just not cool.
Move to Dubuque, Not San Francisco
In Silicon Valley, the cost for talent is too high—and climbing. Will smart technology companies start moving to smaller markets? Behold the brave new economic geography.
Richard Florida Explains Why Density Doesn’t Impact Innovation
The more parochial a place, the more ineffective the talent.
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial City
As long as talented people born in different places are coming together, even the Orkney Islands can be an innovation hub.
Rust Belt Geography and Awful Journalism
The dominant view of dying cities is outdated and wrong, and journalists are largely responsible for the geographic misconceptions.
Urban Minor Leagues of Globalization
Manufacturing used to be concentrated in a few great American cities, but the landscape is changing fast.
Epidemiology of the Knowledge Virus
Concerning innovation, we need to think of distance in a different way. Knowledge moves like a virus.