The European Commission has made 2009 the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. I’m delighted to be one of the ambassadors. After the finance capital debacle of 2008, it’s high time to place real emphasis on the most productive form of human capital we have – our human creative and innovative capital. Let’s look forward to a creative, productive, and sustainable year – and perhaps the dawn of a new era.
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January 11th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
That is excellent news Richard, now if we can get some of that progressive thinking in North America that would be refreshing. I think this is an opportunity for us to evolve. Just ran across this, seems Barack reads Jane Jacobs: http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-jane.html
January 12th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Let’s hope that the EU’s idea of “creativity and innovation” is creative and innovative enough to embrace the kind of radical transformation needed to move away from the old-school, single bottom line, carbon-based, top-down economy to a pluralistic, triple-bottom line, low-carbon, redistributive and ethical one.