December 8, 2006

Colleges as Catalysts for the Creative Class

By ELLEN MCCULLOCH-LOVELL

As cities and towns seek to revitalize their downtowns, they are looking to an emerging "creative sector" to help attract tourists, produce new products, and develop more jobs. The sector gained recognition in 2000, when the Creative Economy Initiativea collaboration among the New England Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and several other groupspublished a groundbreaking study of a regional creative economy on the basis of research by Mt. Auburn Associates, consultants in the

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