NEW YORK-In addition to the outsourcing of jobs, the United States is beginning to experience an exodus of its creative business and academic talent, according to an article in the bimonthly magazine of the global, not-for-profit research group The Conference Board.
In "America's Best and Brightest are Leaving," author Richard Florida, a Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, says Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland are among the newly favored hotspots for creative talent in business and other sectors. According to Florida, as a result of this creative exodus, high-end, high-margin creative industries that used to be the United States' province and a crucial source of prosperity have begun to move overseas.