In the knowledge-based economy, the ability to attract and retain highly skilled labour is perceived as crucial to the current and future prosperity of micro-regions as well as regions and entire nations. It can be proved, that the quality of human resources and economic development are in very...

The creative class approach (Florida, 2002b) has led to many developments. Therefore, measurement of creativity (Chantelot, 2010), economic influence of creative people in urban (Marlet & Van Woerkens, 2007) and rural (McGranahan & Wojan, 2007) environments, or creative people geography...