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.

A special Newspaper for the Harburg Inner Port.

 That is the opinion of the Business Centre Kortrijk, that supports innovating entrepreneurs. Big companies already found their way to innovation.

 This week, the City Monitor reveiled in its second edition the results of 2006. The City Monitor is an assignment of the Flemish government to the University of Gent, in order to improve the liveability of cities.

  The 7th STC meeting of the VISP project will be in Drammen 25-26th of January 2007. The 1st day of the STC meeting will focus on preparations of the VISP Final Conference that will be arranged on the 78th of June in Enschede, Holland.

About 600 participants were present at the Closing session of the Open Days 2006 at the European Parliament in Brussels held on the 12th of  October 2006 when the President of the European Parliament's Regional Development Commission, Gerardo Quecedo Galeo