Nowcasting Entrepreneurship: Urban Third Place versus the Creative Class

Researchers have long debated whether entrepreneurship policy should focus on place or people. In this paper, we extend the place-based versus people-based theories using contemporaneous and geographically granular web-user online activity data to predict a region’s proclivity for entrepreneurship. We compare two theoretical hypotheses: the urban third places—informal gathering locations—that facilitate social interaction and entrepreneurship, in contrast to the creative class which fosters entrepreneurial energy and opportunity in a region. Specifically, we assess whether business formation has a stronger statistical relationship with the browsing behavior of individuals visiting websites associated with third place locations—e.g., restaurants or bars—or the concentration of web browsing behavior associated with “the creative class”. Using U.S. county-level data, we find that both urban third places and the creative class can predict about 70% of the variations in regional business formation, with the creative class having a slight competitive edge.

The Response of Creative Class Members to Regions Vying to Attract Them With Subsidies

There are no theoretical studies in regional science that examine which region to locate in from the standpoint of a creative class member, given that the pertinent regional authorities (RAs) are competing among themselves to attract the creative class using subsidies. This gap provides the motivation for our paper. This paper’s contribution is that it is the first to theoretically study the regional location choice of creative class members when the RAs of the locations in which they might locate are using subsidies to attract them. Specifically, a knowledge good producing creative class member must decide which of two regions ( A or B) to locate his plant in. This good is produced using a Cobb–Douglas function with creative and physical capital. We analyze plant location in four cases. In the benchmark case, we show that the representative creative class member ought to locate his plant in the less expensive region B. Next, we show that a small subsidy to creative capital by region A switches the plant location decision from region B to A. Finally, when both regions grant identical subsidies to creative capital, the representative creative class member is indifferent between locating in regions A and B. So, for identical subsidies to affect the plant location decision, they are better targeted to physical and not to creative capital. JEL Codes: R11, R58

Identity as an Organizing Idea of New Vocabulary and Phraseology

The vocabulary and phraseology are considered from the standpoint of embodying the idea of identity in them. The relevance of the study is due to the need to assess the dynamics of the vocabulary of the language. It is shown that the idea of identity is verbalized in the nominations of a person according to belonging to a certain social community, which has professional status, generational, class and other characteristics. It is noticed that new phraseological units appear in the language in open groups. The novelty of the research lies in the identification of new phraseological groups, which can be partially or completely subject to lexicography. It is noted that online communication has greatly increased attention to the words group, community and the idea of a publicly represented identity. It is shown that the analytical attitude of modern media has led to an orientation towards reflection and the construction of expert assessments in the form of bright, memorable idioms, the creative class, sofa fighters, etc. The intensification of the processes of the language game is shown by the example of expressions with the word collars, releasing a color code (white, gold, platinum collars, etc.). The Internet is said to have provided opportunities to show multiplying identities. The “fourth wave of words” (after the gangster, professional, glamorous) is proposed to be considered the youth, which is formed in Internet communication and expresses the desire of this age category (youth) to know themselves, their values, belonging, purpose and place in the world.

Creative industries in the Arctic: a review of Russian scientific literature

The article reviews the points of view of Russian researchers on the development of creative industries in the Arctic. The main issues that are considered by domestic authors in the works on the development of creative industries in the Russian Arctic are identified, the opinions of the authors on the potential and problems of the development of the Arctic creative industries in the Russian Federation are analyzed. It is concluded that the works of Russian researchers mainly consider such issues as the essence of the concept of "creative industries", the relevance of the development of Arctic entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation, the prospects for the development of creative industries in the Arctic regions of Russia, the level of development of creative industries as a measure of economic development, potential of creative practice in the Arctic region, issues of forming an active creative class, the attractiveness of the Arctic region for the development of creative industries and key problems of the development of creative industries in the Russian Arctic. According to most authors, the main task of the creative industries in the Russian Arctic is to ensure the dynamic development of small businesses in this macroregion. The potential of creative practice in the Arctic region, from the point of view of domestic authors, lies in the development of tourism and social innovation, as well as in the preservation and reproduction of the national culture of the indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic. The formation of an active creative class in the region is difficult due to the impact of such factors as the mono-sectoral nature of local economies, a high concentration of capital in the field of environmen.

The concept of creativity in the problem field of modern social philosophy

This paper speaks of the growing interest in the category of creativity among the scientific community of interdisciplinary discourse, and the place of creativity among philosophical disciplines. Creativity as a property of the social environment is characteristic of the type of society in which traditions have not managed to become a universal form of behavior, prompting the subjects of society to permanently reflect on habitual patterns of behavior, the production of unique forms, and the original synthesis of previously known ideas and social practices. Being an integral property of the social and cultural environment as a whole, creativity ultimately reveals a person’s desire for novelty and marks the beginning of the digital revolution. The development of creativity due to explicitly specified external conditions contributes to its identification not only in a certain scientific environment, but also in the whole society, within which the creative class functions. Within the framework of the socio-philosophical context, the category of creativity reveals its potential based on the axiological approach. Tracing the rejection of the values of traditional society, the new values are those that contribute to the self-expression of a person, expanding the boundaries of his or her self-actualization.

Penerapan pembelajaran problem posing untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa kelas VIII-1 SMP Negeri 23 Malang pada pokok bahasan bangun ruang sisi datar

This study aims to determine the process of applying problem posing learning that can improve the creative thinking skills of class VIII-1 students at SMP Negeri 23 Malang on the subject of polyhedron. This type of research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) which lasts two cycles. The instruments used in this study are validation sheets, observation sheets and test sheets. Based on the results of the study indicate that the application of problem posing learning with steps that include: the stage of apperception, the stage of delivering learning objectives, the stage of delivering motivation, the stage of understanding the material, the presentation stage, the stage of submission of questions, the stage of problem solving, and the conclusion phase creative class VIII-1 SMP Negeri 23 Malang on the subject of polyhedron with evidence in the first cycle there were 58.06 percent of students who reached the category of "good" and and increased by 25.03 percent in the second cycle to 83.09 percent students who reach the "good" category. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses penerapan pembelajaran problem posing yang dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa kelas VIII-1 SMP Negeri 23 Malang pada pokok bahasan bangun ruang sisi datar. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) yang berlangsung selama dua siklus. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah lembar validasi, lembar observasi dan lembar tes. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran problem posing dengan langkah-langkah yang meliputi: tahap apersepsi, tahap penyampaian tujuan pembelajaran, tahap penyampaian motivasi, tahap memahami materi, tahap presentasi, tahap pengajuan soal, tahap penyelesaian soal, dan tahap kesimpulan dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa kelas VIII-1 SMP Negeri 23 Malang pada pokok bahasan bangun ruang sisi datar dengan bukti pada siklus I terdapat 58,06 persen siswa yang mencapai kategori “baik” dan dan meningkat sebesar 25,03 persen pada siklus II menjadi 83,09 persen siswa yang mencapai kategori “baik”.

Pengembangan Kreativitas dan Produktivitas Siswa-Siswi Sekolah Dasar Islam Al-Azhar 8 Kembangan Jakarta Barat melalui Program Media Creative Class

Purpose: This activity aimed to add, improve, and sharpen participant's skills, develop the creativity of elementary school children, and increase their productivity during the pandemic Method: Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approach was utilized by assessing community involvement and interest in Creative Media Class's programs. Results: As a result of this activity, participants have gained new skills such as a better understanding of how they create creative content. Not only that, but they also know about ethics in social media. Making posters/flyers / Instagram post formats and video blogs are distributed through the official social media Media Creative Class, Instagram: @medikraf and their own. Conclusion: To develop student creativity for their skills, Media Creative Class helps them optimize technology for a solution to social distancing regulations.

Talent on Strike: The Musicians’ Union and the Early Agonies of the Creative Class

In November 1865, the membership of New York City's Musical Mutual Protective Union went on strike. Spurred by low wages and professional disrespect, union men came together around an ensemble ethic emphasizing mutual obligation among players. This powerful code of conduct—enforced through the union's internal structure and the musicians’ employment model—sustained several weeks of strike action in the face of public indifference. It also pushed musicians to close their ranks and ensured the homogeneity of the orchestra pit. The strike invites us to historicize the “creative economy,” with equal attention to the material conditions of workers and the durable conceptual categories created by the culture industries.