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Harvesting the Rural Creative Economy: And why you need to read it

January 28th, 2011

Increasingly, economic development professionals are learning that talent attraction is a key element of economic development. The question then becomes, how do we do it? Any community leader seeking to understand how Richard Florida's creative economy applies to rural communities should read a new paper titled "Harvesting the Rural Creative Economy" by Heather Hall (Jan. 2011).

It's a great review of current research on how this largely urban theory of economic development fits into the rural landscape. Beyond the value of the literature review, however, I appreciate the paper for several reasons. First, the paper gets right to the point. Only nine pages long, including citations, it's a quick read. More importantly, it is written in a way that the average community leader can understand. Second, the paper does not attempt to sell the concept as the savior for every rural economy. Instead the author acknowledges that rural communities "need to be cautious of the challenges that might arise." One of the challenges that she highlights is "whether industry and talent clustering is possible in rural areas that lack density and proximity to a mega region." (p. 6) That is an issue that I personally wrestle with. Third, the author assembles and summarizes a wide variety of research. As someone who follows this subject, I was please to discover new materials. In fact, I've placed one article, "Creativity, Tourism, Economic Development in a Rural Context: the case of Prince Edward County," at the top of my reading list. And finally, the paper puts the theories of this economic development strategy into the context of what one rural community - Prince Edward County, ON - is doing to implement them. Readers will be impressed to learn how this rural county in southern Ontario has used an existing asset, agricultural production, to grow a "creative food movement." As the author acknowledges, Prince Edward County may be positioned better for a creative economy because of its geography and natural resources than some communities, but it is heartening to read about a rural community that is having success making the creative class economy fit the specifics of their county. I don't hear much conversation in the upper Midwest about the creative class theories of economic development. Admittedly, I don't think they apply as neatly to rural settings as they do urban. But I do believe that talent attraction is just as important to our economies as they are to urban economies. This means we need to understand how to take advantage of what the current research tells us. And "Harvesting the Rural Creative Economy" is a great place to start. Photo Credit: ActiveSteve - Flickr

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Sounds like the creative class theories of Richard Florida have worked in this rural community.

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"It's great that we attract the arts and support it, where can i buy cheapest Tricor online, Tricor overseas, '' he said. "But you can't point to one significant business that relocated as a result of arts.''

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Here I turn to advice offered by Dr, order Tricor from mexican pharmacy. Rx free Tricor, David Ivan of Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute, and a presentation he made at the 2009 Small Town & Rural Development Conference titled "Can Small Towns be Cool?" While lifting up cultural and artistic sectors as a part of economic development strategies, Tricor over the counter, Tricor price, coupon, Dr. Ivan acknowledged that successful cultural efforts "are genuine, saturday delivery Tricor, Buy cheap Tricor no rx, often organically-driven by creative individuals within the community."

Dr. Ivan goes on in the presentation to highlight how efforts to build the arts must be "authentic" in order for them to be successful.

"Authentic" is very popular word in the marketing community today. It suggests you can't try to promote yourself as something you are not.

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The authors believe there is an opportunity to take advantage of a growing movement of people out of urban areas.

Not all members of the creative class have an entrepreneurial mindset.

Rural communities with lower levels of outdoor amenities tend to attract members of the creative class who fill jobs in factories, not the type of creative class people who help create new jobs.

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I've been wrestling with the findings of this study for over a week. Deep in my heart, buy no prescription Macrobid online, Cod online Macrobid, I know that rural communities who don't possess loads of natural amenities can become places where talented people want to live. I had hoped to conclude this post with advice for communities with low amenities. But I'm not ready to offer that quite yet.

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Although I have a love-hate relationship with the ideas put forward by Florida in The Rise of the Creative Class and in subsequent work, Invega to buy, Buy cheap Invega, I do wholeheartedly embrace its basic tenant that the economies of our communities today are being driven by talented, creative people. In his light, buy Invega from mexico, Purchase Invega, communities would do well to make themselves places where talented people want to live.

Recognizing that talent attraction matters to economic growth is pretty easy and benign. But a closer look reveals more complexity. First, most of the creative class theories are dedicated to urban areas. Do the principles of talent, Invega for sale, Invega gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, technology, and tolerance serve as important attractor roles in rural areas like they do in urban areas? Second, Invega in usa, Invega buy, people attraction strategies consume financial resources that could come at the expense of traditional economic activities like business recruitment. Doesn't it make more sense to invest in creating jobs than community amenities.

Those and others are pretty big questions that I hope to spend more time addressing in the near future. Today, purchase Invega online no prescription, Saturday delivery Invega, I want to share a post that helped clarify some matters related to the jobs vs. amenities debate, buy Invega without a prescription.

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If you are interested in community development, rural or urban, you need to check out Aaron M. Renn and his Urbanophile blog. Although his outlook for rural communities is not as rosy as I would like, he offers incredible insights into what makes cities tick. Elements of this are very relevant to rural communities, even when it's stuff we don't want to hear, Buy Invega Without Prescription. Purchase Invega online, Recently I found one of his posts titled "Does Anyone Really Believe Human Capital Is Important" to be very helpful because it clarified some ideas about people attraction strategies. I think they are worth sharing.

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The first issue Renn tackles is the notion that marketing your community for people attraction is a waste of money because "what really attracts people is a good economy, buy Invega from canada, Buy Invega online without prescription, quality public services, and efficient government."

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I agree. Especially about the importance of brand awareness. In fact, Invega tablets, Order Invega online c.o.d, I'd wager that brand awareness is a bigger issue for rural communities than urban.

That said, I hope communities don't look at this as a carte blanche endorsement to rush out and spend large sums of money on advertising. I think there are a lot of steps to complete before a community is ready to advertise. And there's a lot more to marketing than advertising. (If I had limited resources, sale Invega, Buy cheap Invega no rx, I'd invest a lot more in building relationships.)

Do jobs follow people or people follow jobs?

The second and more important topic that Renn addresses is the "chicken or egg" issue of whether jobs follow people (as the creative class theory advocates) or the vice-versa. This is an issue that has constantly tripped me up. Although I accept the premise that talented individual are both more likely to choose location over job and create new job growth, I've never been able to say definitively that one is more important than the other.

The real value in the argument Renn presents is that he calls on communities to think more deeply about "specific niches or segments of population" with their recruiting efforts. In this regard, fast shipping Invega, Rx free Invega, people attraction efforts are no different than any other marketing exercise.

Renn goes on to say that communities should match labor and employment needs as they determine specific population niches to recruit and the civic investments they make.

This is all good advice, and it should cause those of us in rural communities to think more deeply about how we build communities that are attractive to talented people. It also suggests we have a great deal more to learn about the people we hope to recruit, Invega in us. Buy Invega online with no prescription, We can start this learning process by going back and looking at the research by McGranahan and others about the role natural amenities in rural population movements. We should also use the Appreciative Inquiry method to understand what has attracted new residents to our communities in the past.

There's bound to be a lot of differences in what communities learn from this type of exercise. After all, "if you've been one rural community, Invega in canada, Order Invega no prescription, you've only been in one rural community." But it's an important step if we hope to be effective at recruiting new residents.

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But the bulk of his message, which I left untouched yesterday, is that we need to reimagine our educational system. You may listen (or re-listen) to the interview in the video below.

(video source: "Reinventing the way Workers Learn," Big Think

Florida's emphasis on the lack of social skill training in education reminded me of the advice Jim Beddow offered college students when he was the President at Dakota Wesleyan University back in the 1980s and early 1990s. He encouraged students to develop skills that enabled them to:

communicate (verbal & written)

work in a team environment

solve problems

Jim still offers this advice to young people, and has since added a forth key; learn to network (both in personal and online). To support his advice, Jim often cites successful individuals who embody these skills. Two things strike me about his list of examples. First, a great many create success outside of their chosen field of academic study. And second, these individuals are incredibly entrepreneurial and creative.

As regular readers recognize, I'm a former high school teacher, and am often a critic of the educational system in our rural communities. My primary grudge is that our current educational model was developed for the industrial economy, which means we trained them to be successful in urban communities with stronger industrial economies.

In the video interview, Florida tells us that "nibbling around the edges" of the educational system won't develop the types of change that our country needs to grow our economy. I would agree.

But what does that mean for our rural communities? Do we have to wait until business and political leaders are ready to transform education? I hope not.

Instead, purchase Lunesta online no prescription, Lunesta prices, I would call on rural educators to look within their classrooms, and figure out ways that they can teach these skills to their current students. Not only will students benefit as individuals, buy Lunesta without prescription, Fast shipping Lunesta, but I think our rural communities will benefit as well.

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February 8th, 2010

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His research casts an ominous shadow on rural communities, both past and future. Historically, where can i buy Vytorin online, Vytorin price, coupon, he finds little evidence of creative workers in rural communities. And in the future, he sees little opportunity for rural communities to attract them, Vytorin prescriptions. Vytorin buy, No talent, no future.

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Creative workers in home repair and food processing. Those jobs don't sound as foreign to rural communities as computer science and research.

In this light, rural communities are still in competition with urban areas for creative individuals. But the question becomes, Vytorin in uk, Delivered overnight Vytorin, how can we help them put their creativity to work building businesses that connect to the geographic advantages each rural community possesses?

As Florida highlights later in the interview, that process becomes easier when we reinvent our school systems. Let's talk more about that later.

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I've commented previously about efforts by travel magazines to identify "cool small towns" (read here and here Buy Rogaine Without Prescription, ). Although these lists provide some perspective for rural community development enthusiasts, Rogaine pills, Saturday delivery Rogaine, I'm a bit skeptical of them largely because they are written from a "tourist's point of view." In other words, they're about what urban dwellers believe is cool, Rogaine over the counter, Over the counter Rogaine, and I'm not sure that always translates to what's important to the future of rural communities. But a new list caught my eye yesterday because it identifies small towns that "are cool" based on how well they are transitioning into the 21^st century economy. Now that's a list worth looking at.

Actually, the list is just new to me. Dr, purchase Rogaine. Real brand Rogaine online, David Ivan at Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute has been researching the subject for the last 4-5 years. With Richard Florida's "Creative Class theory" as the backdrop, Dr, order Rogaine from United States pharmacy. Rogaine in canada, Ivan centered his research around the question, "Can small towns be cool?" Through his research, sale Rogaine, Buy Rogaine from mexico, he has identified both themes of success (i.e. - best practices) and success stories (i.e, buy Rogaine without a prescription. - what small towns are doing good things). Rural community development enthusiasts will find value in both.

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Cultural efforts are not overly contrived;

Cultural efforts reach out to community youth;

Deliberate effort to engage youth;

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What a great list! Readers at ReImagine Rural will recognize many of the themes as regular topics of discussion. One theme I was surprised to see not addressed was school involvement. Granted youth are prominently featured, online buying Rogaine hcl, Rogaine overseas, but most rural communities operate under the principle that the school is the heart of the community. It causes me to wonder how we can have a successful community without school engagement.

Where's South Dakota in all this?

I became aware of this study because of Richard Longworth's December 2009 blog post titled "Some success." A Google search for "Can Small Towns be Cool" made me aware that I had missed an earlier post on the same subject (May 2009) from my favorite small town entrepreneurship blogger, Becky McCray, order Rogaine online c.o.d. Order Rogaine no prescription, Both Longworth and McCray both identify specific towns that are on the "cool town list." Sadly, no small towns in South Dakota made the cut, buy cheap Rogaine no rx. Rogaine to buy online, What's up with that. Buy Rogaine Without Prescription, As Longworth points out, Dr. Ivan is still conducting research and is interested in hearing of other successful small towns. Hopefully, Rogaine tablets, Buy Rogaine online with no prescription, South Dakota's towns haven't been reviewed yet. But just in case, buy no prescription Rogaine online, Rogaine in us, I'm going to suggest one.

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