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》(公法111-5)资助的。该项目采用了一种新的方法来研究创造性资本和人力资源机构的作用及其对北方社区社会和经济发展的影响。皮彼得罗夫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，以考察创造性资本在这些社区的经济发展中的作用。创造性资本的定义是一种创造性能力和知识的存量(S)，体现在一群受过高教育和/或从事创造性(科学、艺术、创业或技术)活动的个人身上。调查员指出，大多数具有创造性的阶层研究都是在大都市地区进行的，因此边缘化了边缘地区，如北极地区，通常是土著农村社区。这项研究将把这一概念应用于更多的农村和北方地区，希望开发新的方式来理解北方经济发展计划的成功和失败。国际和平协会还将开发一个网站Creative北极，供研究人员、课堂使用，并向当地企业家、政策制定者以及对其地区经济发展感兴趣的土著社区和利益集团提供信息。

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.