3. Smart Indicators 3.1 Smart Economy Retaining and attracting talent and promoting creativity
Retaining and attracting talent and promoting creativity
For the development of cities and for cities to be more competitive, it is necessary to have educated, creative and entrepreneurial citizens. This requires cities to develop various lines of action aimed at attracting and retaining talent.
However, this contrasts with Africa, where only 33% of African cities that answered the question have developed some kind of action. A similar percentage to Latin America, where 43% of the cities have taken some form of action. In the case of Asia, Taipei, the only Asian city participating in the study, has developed some kind of action in this regard.
In this regard, of the 20 cities (3 in Africa, 7 in Latin America, 1 in Asia, 9 in Europe) that responded to this question, 65% have developed some kind of action aimed at attracting and retaining talent and fostering creativity.
Below are some of the initiatives developed by the cities in order to attract and retain talent.
If we consider the distribution by region, we can highlight the high percentage of European cities that develop some type of action, as almost 89% of European cities have stated that they have developed plans in this line.
% of cities implementing actions to attract and retain talent and encourage creativity by region Does the city develop actions to attract and retain talent and encourage creativity? 100%
No 7 cities 35%
100%
90%
89%
80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30%
43% 33%
20%
Yes 13 cities 65%
10% 0%
Africa
Latin America
Asia
Europe
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