Richard Florida is the A. Alfred Taubman professor of economics and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is also the editor of The Global Creativity Index, which ranks 150 states on their level of innovation. He is an advisor to Starbucks, Google, and other major companies
He has appeared on NPR's "Fresh Air" and was named one of the fifty most influential people in global business by Fast Company magazine.
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.Richard Florida
It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.Richard Florida
