Economy
The Real Reason Creative Workers Are Good for the Economy
A new study shows that creative class workers spur innovation, no matter their field.
How does creativity get turned into big commercial innovations that ultimately lead to new businesses, new jobs, higher wages and economic growth?
This is something I've spent a lot of time thinking about ever since I wrote The Rise of the Creative Class a decade ago. Skeptics counter that creativity and the creative class are at best loosely connected to innovation. The real key to the kinds of technological breakthroughs that power economic growth, they argue, comes from clusters of innovative firms and industries, not from creative workers spanning arts, design, culture and media as well as science, technology and management.