Brain gain
Subtitle: how innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption
By: by Robert Bell, John Jung and Louis Zacharilla
Contributors: Jung, John, 1937-; Zacharilla, Louis
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Intelligent Community Forum
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781499228021
Subjects: Cities and towns; Economic conditions; Urban economics; Growth; Employment; Economic development; Urban Sociology; Création d'emplois; Technologies de l'information et de la communication; Nouvelle économie; Innovations technologiques; Ouvriers qualifiés; Economie urbaine
Other titles: How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption
Description: Brain Gain: How Innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption is a survival manual for cities and regions on how to build economic prosperity and meet social challenges in an age of technological change. Why has the global economy created a projected jobs gap of 75 million persons? Why are jobless recoveries now commonplace and why are middle-skilled jobs being erased? Brain Gain explains how innovation combined with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is driving global economic change and has created a new force to be dealt with -- the global connectivity of the broadband Internet. Brain Gain probes the big issues of work and well-being, the innovation economy, offshoring, immigration and the future of big cities and small towns as they deal with the broadband economy. Innovation and advances in communications technology destroy jobs but also create new ones, cities must decide if they want to take actions that will provide a brain gain or a brain drain. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Work and well-being; title: - Creator, preserver, destroyer; title: The three sides of innovation; title: - Standing in the middle; title: - Education for the next billion; title: - The center and the edge; title: - The light from dying stars; title: - How ʹYa gonna keep ʹEm down on the farm?; title: - Whatever happened to the giant sucking sound?; title: - Strangers in strange land; title: - How to save your city ... and still win the next election; title: Getting into Heaven; title: Appendix: What is an intelligent community?