Measuring Creative Work - the European experience

Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall

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Abstract: Creativity has attracted the attention of researchers in a variety of disciplines. In the management literature the focus has been on how creativity emerges from the interaction between the individual employee and various aspects of management style and work organisation. Prior to Richard Florida's publication of The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) relatively little attention has been given to analysing creativity at the levels of regions and nations. In this paper we measure the volume of creative work and link it to national economic performance in Europe. We demonstrate that the frequency of creative work is quite different in different parts of Europe and that it correlates with national innovative performance. The results indicate that innovation may be promoted by knowledge management strategies offering employees opportunities to implement their own ideas.

Keywords: Crteativity; European Union; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in IUP Journal of Knowledge Management, 2010, 8 (1&2), pp.77-97

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