The Innovation Economy peaked with the last financial crisis. In the emerging epoch—the Talent Economy—the competition among companies like Google and Facebook for the same pool of ideas makers will reshape our cities.
Jobs follow talent. Investment follows talent. Workers own the means of production. The Creative Class rules the world. Richard Florida’s utopian geography seduces the upwardly mobile. But don’t expect to freelance your way to prosperity. Most of us still slave to the old economic paradigm. But over the last decade, this old economic paradigm has undergone a dramatic transformation.
To read the original article: Tech Talent Recruiting Geography: How Silicon Valley Will Compete
