Brain Gain: How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption

Brain Gain, newly published in a second edition, explains how innovative cities and regions create job growth amid the disruptions of our Digital Century. It is based on more than 20 years of research and engagement by the Intelligent Community Forum with cities and regions that have found the keys to building innovative, inclusive and prosperous economies and cultivate strong social connections and rich and meaningful cultures. The second edition adds new content on the Community Accelerator Strategy, a development framework that has powered the success of places from Eindhoven, Netherlands and Tallinn, Estonia, to Stratford, Ontario, Canada and Taoyuan in Taiwan. It addresses crucial issues from improving education to the urban-rural divide, artificial intelligence to immigration, the new rules of the digital economy to the immense growth potential of small-to-midsize communities.
Why has the global economy created a projected jobs gap of 75 million persons? Why are jobless recoveries now commonplace and why are middle-skilled jobs being erased? Brain Gain explains how digital innovation is driving global economic change that challenges every community, of every size and place, to adapt.
Brain Gain probes the big issues of work and well-being, the innovation economy, offshoring, immigration and the future of big cities and small towns in the Digital Century as they strive to turn brain drain into brain gain.