The 3rd interview of EJ Oct. 2007 issue is Richard Flogida interview. He talks about "creative class". He started this interview about cleative class people and outsource.
He mentioned about investing in higher skilled people. He talked about these "creative class" people's flow in the globarization period.
to have that group of skilled and creative people, because other companies from other countries will come in and take advantage.
What my book was saying is that if you can outsource low-scale functions, what's very important for countries and for regions is that they invest in these higher skill, higher valuadded functions. Those are harder to outsource.
And may be this is a different way of putting it: it may be that even if a company outsources certain functions, for the region or the country the key isEJ Interview Richard Florida - English Journal October 2007 issue
His opinion that the more globalized, the more creative people are concentrated is intersting. Many people argue the more globalized, the flatter the world is. But recently, concentration with globalization can be seen in many field. What should I or we do for concentration and how can I or we do to become members of concentrated creative class?
What I'm trying to say is that ther's a strong counterforce to that, which is this benefit of concentration. And this benefit of concentration comes from the co-location of varied productive and innnovative and enterpreneurial creative individuals. That offsets, through productivity improvement, the benefits of outsourcing.
What we're finding then is the world is both flat -- as economic activity decentralizes lower-skill -- and then it's being reorganaized around these very, very concentrated regions of economic activity.
So, what we see is the competition is no longer a competition between nations over investment and financial flows, but really a competition among regions for people. And so you have to be able to generate creative people, ratain creative and talented people, boost your overall human capital rate.EJ Interview Richard Florida - English Journal October 2007 issue
Can I have enough creativity to become a member of concentrated creative class?
Finally, he answerd as follows:
I hink we are in a global world, I think the competitive playing field is much more robust, and we're only beginnning to now see these tow big effects: the regionalization of the world economy, and this increasingly growing global competition for talent, which I think will define -- the competition for talent's gonna define the economic playing field for the next generation.EJ Interview Richard Florida - English Journal October 2007 issue
