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Nordic City Regions in the Creative Class Debate: Putting the Creative Class Thesis to a Test

In English

Författare

  • Kristina Vaarst Andersen
  • Høgni Kalsø Hansen
  • Arne Isaksen
  • Mika Raunio

Summary, in English

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 Nordic city regions. The paper, however, also analyses smaller city regions, which are important in the Nordic urban structure. The findings are clearly less supportive for these smaller regions, which mean that the original creative class approach has to be considerably refined when used in the Nordic context.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

215-240

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Industry and Innovation

Volym

17

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Regional growth
  • creative class
  • Nordic countries

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1366-2716