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Tourism, Innovation, Creativity, and Growth: Advancing Aruba ’s Knowledge Economy

Tourism, Innovation, Creativity, and Growth: Advancing Aruba ’s Knowledge Economy. Rich Harrill, Ph.D. Director International Tourism Research Institute. Con Ta Bai!. Urban Planning + Tourism + Economic Development An economic developer that specializes in hospitality and tourism

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Tourism, Innovation, Creativity, and Growth: Advancing Aruba ’s Knowledge Economy

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  1. Tourism, Innovation, Creativity, and Growth: Advancing Aruba’sKnowledge Economy Rich Harrill, Ph.D. Director International Tourism Research Institute

  2. Con Ta Bai! • Urban Planning + Tourism + Economic Development • An economic developer that specializes in hospitality and tourism • Tourism as a magnet for finance, real estate, technology, energy, and health care

  3. The New Transnational Economy • Rewards rapid flows of knowledge and intellectual capital • Favors flexible and strategically located city-states and island-states • Creates gateways, hubs, and nodes

  4. International Leisure Workscapes Places to Live, Work, and Play • Middle East (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) • Asia (Macao, Singapore) • Latin America (Rio/Florianopolis) • Africa (Sun City)

  5. Realizing the Green Gateway • Innovation • Creativity • Growth and development

  6. Innovation • Enterprise Innovation Institute (EII) at Georgia Tech: http://innovate.gatech.edu • Technology Square is a district: both a place and a brand • “One-stop shop” for local entrepreneurs • Relocation packages are important to foreign entrepreneurs

  7. Overflowing with Creativity • Tourism, Innovation, Creativity, and Growth • Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class (2002) • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996) • Flow means “peak performance”

  8. Overflowing with Creativity • Technology, arts, entertainment, events, and learning • Tourism and urban design can create creative workscapes that spur entrepreneurship and innovation • Examples: Innovista (South Carolina), Research Triangle (North Carolina)

  9. A Natural Balance • Aruba can become an innovative, entrepreneurial green gateway linking North, South, East, and West • However, must be sustainable socially, culturally, and environmentally, including urban redevelopment, parks, greenways, and greenspaces

  10. Implications for Business • There can be no future without respecting the past • Innovation should also mean assistance with existing workforce development • Retraining older workers in current technologies • Public-private partnership

  11. Conclusions • Emerging global economic conditions favor Aruba • Innovation can help Aruba take advantage of these emerging economic trends

  12. Thank you! • Rich Harrill, Ph.D. • Phone: (803) 779-1659 • E-mail: rharrill@hrsm.sc.edu

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