Topic: Business
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Cities Are Innovative Because They Contain More Ideas to Steal
Two economists argue urban environments help foster the borrowing of ideas even better than they harvest original ones.
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Charts
New Orleans: America's Next Great Innovation Hub?
New Orleans was once a great city to get away from business. How it became a great place to start one.
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Regardless How They're Counted, Incentives Do Nothing for Economic Development
A follow-up on our analysis of The New York Times series on state and local incentives to business.
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People Live and Work in Downtown Pittsburgh. How Can the City Get Them to Shop There?
Rather than trying to lure major retailers onto certain sites, the city is creating places Pittsburghers want to go and hoping business will follow.
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Charts
Where High-Growth Company Founders Start Out and Where They End Up
The flow of entrepreneurial talent and which metros are "producing," "exporting," "importing," and "consuming" it.
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Maps
The Geography of Business Density
The most and least dense U.S. metros for business enterprise.
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Videos
The Businesses That Will Lead Detroit
The fourth installment in a five-part series featuring Richard Florida leading a conversation on the future of the Motor City.
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Supporting Local Business with the Muscle of a 'Cash Mob'
At events all over the country, neighbors who want their money to stay local are swarming mom-and-pop shops.
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Which Cities Have the Most Global Clout?
New York and London top the list in a new ranking of 66 cities around the world.
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How One Man Built His City a Fiber Optic Network
Software entrepreneur Patrick Kennedy is bringing faster internet to San Leandro, thanks to infrastructure put in place by BART and city officials.
