3 Questions

1. How would Florida define entrepreneurship? What would he think of innovative entrepreneurship vs. replicative entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is the result of the promotion of creativity and innovation which is vastly seen in cities, or tight-knitted communities. The greatest way to find top entrepreneurs is by surrounding them with people to share their ideas with and work off of. Social capital is beneficial by the fact that the more ideas that are thrown out the more likely one will spur and entrepreneur to pursue his dream.

2. What lessons can you learn from the second article?

For my second article, I chose Human Capital and Metropolitan Employment Growth by Curtis Simon. In this article they write about how cities that have a higher level of human capital, meaning population and amount of people, will expect faster employment growth. propose that cities with higher average levels of human capital should experience faster employment growth. They back this up with data to help support the theory. What I learned from the article is that when people work together and have more people to assist them, the more productive they are. I guess it helps back up the saying, the power is in the numbers.

3. If Richard Florida and Ken Robinson were in a room together, what would they discuss?

Obviously they would discuss entrepreneurship and creativity/innovation except the way they go about it would be completely different. Richard Florida would take a more serious stand point using technical terms and factors to explain how people come up with great ideas. Ken Robinson would take the comical side explaining how real life situations pan out to spark the next great idea. They would be the ying and yang to each other the way you can contrast their personalities yet it would be a very informational presentation.