Tag: florida
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Innovation is not high-tech expensive equipaments
University of Florida Innovation vs. the ants When cutting-edge research labs get old, they face a new kind of challenge: Upkeep is expensive, and it’s not sexy. Put expensive high-tech scientific equipment in a former citrus packing house more than 60 years old, throw in an overworked air conditioner, a corroding foundation, and the sticky…
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Does Creativity Breed Inequality in Cities?
In 2002, Richard Florida became America’s best known urbanist with the publication of his book, The Rise of the Creative Class. In it, Florida posited that the “creative class,” a group which included artists, scientists and engineers, as well as educated knowledge sector professionals such as lawyers and finance workers, was the main driver of cultural…
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