Creative Arctic: Creative Capital for Regional Development in the Arctic (A Spatial Analysis)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目采用了一种新颖的方法来研究创造性资本和人力机构的作用及其对北方社区社会和经济发展的影响。PI Petrov将研究来自阿拉斯加、加拿大、俄罗斯、法罗群岛、挪威、瑞典和芬兰的数据，以研究创造性资本的作用。创造性资本被定义为具有高水平教育和/或从事创造性（科学、艺术、创业或技术）活动的一群人的创造性能力和知识储备，在这些社区的经济发展中。研究者指出，大多数创造性阶层的研究都是在大都市地区进行的，因此被边缘化了，比如北极地区，经常是土著，农村社区。这项研究将把这个概念应用到更多的农村和北方地区，希望能找到新的方法来理解北方经济发展计划的成功和失败。倡议还将开发一个名为“创意北极”的网站，供研究人员、课堂使用，并向当地企业家、政策制定者、土著社区和对本地区经济发展感兴趣的利益团体提供信息。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project applies a novel approach to the role of creative capital and human agency and its affect on social and economic development in Northern communities. PI Petrov will examine data from Alaska, Canada, Russia, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to examine the role of creative capital, defined as a stock of creative abilities and knowledge(s) embodied in a group of individuals who either possess high levels of education and/or are engaged in creative (scientific, artistic, entrepreneurial or technological) types of activities, in economic development in these communities. The investigator points out that most creative class research has been done in metropolitan areas and thus has marginalized peripheries, such as Arctic, frequently indigenous, rural communities. This research would apply the concept to more rural, northern areas in hopes of developing new ways of understanding the successes and failures of northern economic development programs. The PI will also develop a web site, CreativeArctic, for researchers, classroom use, and informing local entrepreneurs, policy makers, and indigenous communities and interest groups interested in economic development in their regions.