The IC World Is Not Flat: Embrace the Spike [From the Executive Director]

Get together to get smarter. "Ideas flow more freely, are honed more sharply, and put into practice more quickly when large numbers of innovators, implementers, and financial backers are in constant contact with each other, both in and out of the office." These creative people are the pump of urban health. This quote from Richard Florida, who is currently at the University of Toronto, Canada, may seem to us an obvious observation. Florida has spent decades using social and economic data from international organizations to verify this.