Brain Gain: How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption
By Robert Bell, John Jung and Louis Zacharilla.
Written by members of the Intelligent Community Forum, ?Brain Gain? serves as a survival manual for communities looking to overcome economic challenges in innovative ways. With the rapid growth of technology, the prevalence of the Internet and the growing trend of globalization, many local economies are in states of upheaval. Examining globe-spanning examples from the U.K.?s cosmopolitan Birmingham to the rural town of Mitchell, S.D., ?Brain Gain? argues communities cannot wait for national governments to deal with pressing economic issues. Municipalities must create their own destinies and seize the opportunities quickly shifting economies and technologies have to offer.
By Robert Bell, John Jung and Louis Zacharilla.
Written by members of the Intelligent Community Forum, ?Brain Gain? serves as a survival manual for communities looking to overcome economic challenges in innovative ways. With the rapid growth of technology, the prevalence of the Internet and the growing trend of globalization, many local economies are in states of upheaval. Examining globe-spanning examples from the U.K.?s cosmopolitan Birmingham to the rural town of Mitchell, S.D., ?Brain Gain? argues communities cannot wait for national governments to deal with pressing economic issues. Municipalities must create their own destinies and seize the opportunities quickly shifting economies and technologies have to offer.
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