"To attract the knowledge workers, the business and the level of tourism that Arizona wants to have, we have to maintain an arts community that is high quality".
Northern cities are competing to attract these knowledge economy sectors and the hierarchy of urban business centres is evolving, with larger cities taking the lead.
The paper argues that successful technology transfer in a smaller economy like Chile requires: a minimum internal demand and access to regional markets to attract foreign knowledge providers; a focus in the types of technologies where the recipient country or company have a competitive advantage; and active learning processes by the recipient company.
In order to attract so-called knowledge workers, in industries like computing, biotechnology and other forms of new technology, a city has to be an appealing place to work, play, live, and raise a family.
Effective warnings attract attention; elicit knowledge, and enable compliance behavior.
A worldwide "battle for brains" is going on, he said, a raging fight to attract the latest knowledge and the best scientists to the world's most developed (and most rapidly developing) economies.
Finland has also been aggressive in bolstering its local startup system and is attracting international knowledge-workers, especially after the decline of longstanding mobile phone giant Nokia.
These amenities attract the savvy young knowledge workers of the creative class, who in turn attract business.
While the benefits of volunteering are well known - making a difference, giving back to the community, and developing new skills, for example - there is less clarity about what psychological aspects make a volunteer and how charities can use this knowledge to attract more people to their cause.
