This report extends the concepts and indicators introduced in The Rise of the Creative Class and in Europe in the Creative Age to the Swedish regional context. It analyses Swedish regions and cities’ competitiveness in the new Creative Economy by building indicators that capture their performances on the dimensions of Talent, Technology and Tolerance - the “3Ts” of economic development.

The report concludes by pointing out that large, dense, and well connected city-regions have a clear advantage in their ability to attract, leverage high stocks of creative talent, and to nurture the necessary social and economic diversity to sustain their growth.

The three regions around Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö attract 64% of all the foreign born population (while they account for 50% of national
population).

Find out more in the full report:

Sweden_in_the_creative_age.pdf 

The report was prepared by the School of Business, Economis and Law - Göteborg University, Department of Human and Economic Geography

Patrik Ström
Doctor of Economics
e-mail, tel: +46 31 7861404

Evelina Wahlqvist
Senior Researcher
e-mail, tel: +46 31 7861384