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The ‘Creative Class’ and Northern Ireland- overview and implications

The ‘Creative Class’ and Northern Ireland- overview and implications. Nick Clifton Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University ( UWIC ) nclifton@cardiffmet.ac.uk. Overview. Context- why does this matter? What is the creative class idea?

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The ‘Creative Class’ and Northern Ireland- overview and implications

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  1. The ‘Creative Class’ and Northern Ireland- overview and implications Nick Clifton Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC) nclifton@cardiffmet.ac.uk

  2. Overview • Context- why does this matter? • What is the creative class idea? • Evidence from the UK (and beyond…) • The Northern Ireland picture • Context • Evidence? • So what…?

  3. Context • Place as the key organising factor of economic activity within the knowledge economy • focus on actual location of knowledge generation and spillovers • or alternatively firms’ use of networks and cross-locality knowledge sourcing • Other strand of research emerging - role of knowledge embodied in mobile individuals (flow vs stock) • Whereas in the ‘Industrial Age’ people followed jobs, in the Knowledge Economy jobs follow people (who move to ‘talent’ pools or ‘Creative Cities’) • Quality of Place • creativity (bohemians, creative class) • openness, diversity, tolerance (melting pot) • distinctiveness, authenticity of built, natural, and cultural environments • Outcomes… • Innovation, Growth, New firm formation

  4. “The key element of global competition is no longer the trade of goods and services or flows of capital, but thecompetition for people.”(Florida, 2002)

  5. Research Questions • Where is the CC located? • Is this connected with variations in Quality of Place? • Is this connected with variations in economic outcomes? • continuing debate here… • redefining and reworking

  6. Diversity / openness High-tech Jobs / Milken Index Population growth Public provision Employment growth Unemployment New Firm Formation Bohemians Cultural Opportunity Basic Creative Class Model Location Factors Economic Outcomes The creative class

  7. Who are the ‘creative class’? 9.7% 25.5% 2.1% = 37.3%

  8. Knowledge Economy Creative Class Creative Economy Creative Industries

  9. Newcastle Creative Core Sunderland Rochdale Wakefield Manchester Derby Liverpool Nottingham Stoke Leicester Birmingham Cambridgeshire Blaenau Gwent Oxfordshire Cardiff Reading Brighton Bristol

  10. 1.Wokingham 1.46 2.Reading 1.42 3.Cardiff 1.39 4.Oxfordshire 1.34 5.London 1.33 6.Newcastle 1.32 7.Cambridgeshire 1.31 8.Brighton & H 1.31 9.Windsor & Maidenhead 1.31 9.Trafford 1.27 10.Surrey 1.26 1.Barnsley 0.63 2.Tameside 0.62 3.N.E. Lincolnshire 0.61 4.Knowsley 0.60 5.Kingston u. Hull 0.58 6.Sandwell 0.57 7.Thurrock 0.56 8.Blackpool 0.52 9.Blaenau Gwent 0.51 10.Stoke on Trent 0.49 Creative Class

  11. The Creative Core By Residence in Scotland Creative Core Edinburgh Glasgow

  12. Creative Core City of London (missing data) Camden Westminster Barking & Dagenham Newham Richmond Kingston

  13. Talent City of London Camden Westminster Barking & Dagenham Newham Richmond Kingston

  14. Creative Core and Bohemians

  15. Creativity & Diversity in the UK

  16. Creativity & Diversity in the UK Association? yes- but causation? 1]Co-location? 2]Consumption? 3]Participation? Richmond Camden Cardiff Leicester Newham Sandwell Blaenau Gwent

  17. Testing the Model- summary (UK)

  18. Indicators of Prosperity- Bivariate Correlations

  19. OPENNESS / DIVERSITY INDEX (2):NORTH AMERICAN & EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

  20. The Northern Ireland picture

  21. Northern Ireland: Creative Core Belfast

  22. Northern Ireland: Creative Core Belfast

  23. Belfast data • Group data (Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham)

  24. Belfast data • Group data (Barcelona, Bilbao, Bucharest, • Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Cardiff, Edinburgh, • Manchester, Newcastle, Poznan)

  25. So what / policy issues…

  26. Secrets of Success…

  27. Florida’s Creative Class- critiques

  28. Varieties of Devolution in the UK, post 1999 Adapted from Cooke and Clifton, 2005

  29. Some final thoughts… • Creative Class model is tempting but not a panacea… • Beware the fixation on the ‘city-region’ model of development • Think about the other routes for knowledge flow… • Universities and local companies? • Supply chains and FDI? • Smarter international knowledge-sourcing? • Can the Inward Investment and Tourism offers be better joined up? (i.e. linking the ‘people’ climate and ‘business’ climate..)

  30. Creative Regions… http://www.creative-regions.eu/ http://www.creative-regions.org.uk/

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