Work moves around. If it can be produced cheaper, more efficiently or better, it gets relocated.
Talent moves around. If one area on the globe is more exciting and thrilling than another, people relocate.
Works moves around. And people that perform the work move around. Not necessarily dependent of each other.
Regional population changes rapidly. Asia gets a booming population growth. First world nations have a enormous amount of seniors coming towards them as the babyboomers are getting old. With regional changes in the populations, the demand for work shifts.
Nobody can tell you how the patterns will turn out. Where will be what. Who will get what.
One thing will be sure, it will be global, spread out, and on the move!
That is the vivid image I got from The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by Richard Florida.
Oh yeah… and if you want to attract talent, you have to provide a tolerant and creative society… duh!
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CREATIVE CLASS -ON-NS&A //VIE
Open Dialog : in http://www.wbabin.net
CREATIVE CLASS PROJECT stems from the consideration that the value chain, in the development of knowledge society , is to produce, process and disseminate ideas.
See in http://www.edscuola.it/LRE.html
The risk factor of this process is lurks in cultural resistance that are opposed to expansion a culture of “Networking for business Innovation”where the key areas of development reside in the transfer of new enabling technologies that can transform old manufacturing areas of production, that now are mature, and accordingly the organizational and managerial concepts that are obsolete because they still now form the basis of the old mechanical society see in http://www.egocreanet.it
CREATIVE CLASS PROJECT therefore seeks to develop a culture of networking-enterprise , on
basis of a sharing relationships between industries of tangible and intangible products, on the basis of an innovative research and development within the intention to exclude cultural resistance and all the conservative attitudes, which they see any “innov -Action “, as risk factor rather than as a good opportunity for enhancing and improving a new type of development driven by the KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY.
For this reason, members of the Project Idea CREATIVE-CLASS, ( see in: http://www.wbabin.net ) are intending to start their operational activities participating to PON-2008 of the ITALIAN MINISTRY UNVERSITY , with the CREATIVE CLASS PROJECT , aimed at renewing the leadership and entrepreneurial business in a form of NETWORKING of people , no more refractory to the new advances in science and in art in order to provide a valuable contribution to the development of future knowledge economy.
pmanzelli@gmail.com ; http://www.egocreanet.it