The rural growth trifecta: outdoor amenities, creative class and entrepreneurial context
研究美国农村地区经济增长的条件，发现创业环境与创意阶层就业比例的互动能显著促进新企业数量和就业增长，尤其在拥有优质户外设施的县。
Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining robust growth in the periphery of the USA, demonstrating the contingent nature of talent as an engine for economic growth. We test the hypothesis that rural growth in the knowledge economy is dependent on the ability to utilize new knowledge, perhaps generated elsewhere, in addressing local economic challenges. Tests confirm that the interaction of entrepreneurial context with the share of the workforce employed in the creative class is strongly associated with growth in the number of new establishments and employment, particularly in those rural counties endowed with attractive outdoor amenities.