Human Capital (Score 1)

Creative regions, human capital, creative class are important research subjects. For your questions, IMHO one of the most interesting research in this field; The Economic Geography of Talent, Author: Richard Florida, Published in: journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 92, Issue 4 December 2002 , pages 743 - 755. In this article author develops diversity index and coolness index. From the abstract; Talent is associated with the diversity index. Furthermore, the economic geography of talent is strongly associated with high-technology industry location. Talent and high-technology industry work independently and together to generate higher regional incomes. In short, talent is a key intermediate variable in attracting high-technology industries and generating higher regional incomes.