The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the creative professions - technological employees and bohemians - on economic growth in Germany's planning regions. It is concluded that technological employees and bohemians foster economic growth. We find that growth is particularly...

Teil 1: Theorie kreativitätsintensiver Prozesse -- Teil 2: Methoden zur Unterstützung kreativitätsintensiver Prozesse -- Teil 3: Software zur Unterstützung kreativitätsintensiver Prozesse -- Teil 4: Anwendungen in der Fernsehindustrie -- Teil 5: Anwendungen in anderen Bereichen.

This paper examines the link between the endowment of creative and science based STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - workers and the level of the firm and firm- and city-/regional-level innovation in Germany. It also looks into whether the presence of these two groups of...