Harvard Business Review: What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Inclusive prosperity is the idea that the opportunity and benefits of economic growth should be widely shared by all segments of society. Most cities fall well short of that ideal. While urban areas continue to afford new opportunities to employees and businesses from all walks of life, they are increasingly split between wealthy, high-skill knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.

Forbes : How Emerging Entrepreneurial Hubs Are Becoming America's New Boomtowns

Richard Florida, the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and a professor of global research at New York University, writes in “The Rise of Global Startup Cities,” that while venture capital has “gone global” by spreading to places like China and India, the dominant centers remain US cities that combine density, great universities, and an open-minded culture to attract the best talent.

Royal Carribean's Horizons : Start-Up City

The entrepreneurial economy: creative innovation as a by-product of an urban ecosystem.

The Economic Geography of Talent

This article by Richard Florida examines the economic geography of talent exploringthe factors that attract talent and its effects on high-technology industry and regional incomes.

Let's Get Creative: Creativity is what makes the world go round. How do you keep from missing the ride?

By Geoff Williams, Entrepreneur Magazine - October 2002

Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Regional Development

By Richard Florida, book chapter in Entrepreneurship, David Hart (editor) - 2002

Review: We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Electronic Age, in Technology and Culture

By Richard Florida, Review of We Were Burning by Bob Johnstone - 2000

The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States

By Maryann P. Feldman and Richard Florida, Annals of the Association of American Geographers - June 1994

Venture Capital Formation, Investment, and Regional Industrialization

By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith, Jr., Annals of the Association of American Geographers - Sept 1993

Silicon Valley and Route 128 Won't Save Us

By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, California Management Review - Fall 1990

Venture Capital-Financed Innovation and Technological Change in the USA

By Richard L. Florida and Martin Kenney, Research Policy - June 1988

Venture Capital's Geography: A Comment on Leinbach and Amrhein

By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Professional Geographer - Jan 1988

Venture Capital and High Technology Entrepreneurship

By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Journal of Business Venturing - 1988

Enterprises et Politique Fiscale: L'Example Americain (In French)

By Richard Florida, Revue Francaise de Finances Publique - 1983