21st Century: The Century of Knowledge and Creativity

Norbert Csizmadia

Chapter 17 in Geofusion:Mapping of the 21st Century, 2020, pp 215-233 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: In the wake of the change in economic structure, industrialization and the subsequent rise in services and the emerging information revolution, the value added by human resources and knowledge is increasingly becoming the driver of economic growth. However, numerous researchers, including Richard Florida, who studied urban regions, and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, creator of the Flow theory, demonstrated that besides knowledge and information, creativity is the factor that is best able to boost the utility and value of knowledge…

Keywords: Globalization; Geopolitics; Geoeconomics; International Economics; Urban Research; Futures Studies; Futurism; Liveable Cities; Global Networks; Future Cities; World Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F6 P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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