How To Grow Knowledge-Based Economy? Nurture Your Home-Grown Talent

The biggest message coming out of the summit is simply that all communities need to listen to and cultivate the talented creative people they already have living in their region.

All communities have the potential to be creative hotbeds and can be magnets for future economic growth if they retain and nurture the local talent. If they don?t encourage local creativity, they could suffer a shrinking regional economy much like the rust belt and dust bowl cities of previous generations. Link