{"id":286,"date":"2007-08-22T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:59","slug":"speaking-of-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of brain drain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070822.wflorida22\/BNStory\/National\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20070822.wflorida22\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#006600;\"><em>TORONTO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Internationally renowned urban thinker and best-selling author Richard Florida was formally welcomed to the University of Toronto&#8217;s business school last night &#8211; and he plans on jumping straight into his research next week.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Florida, whose arrival is a coup for the university, will lead the newly established Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The institute is up and running &#8230; In the next week, we&#8217;ll be going like gangbusters,&#8221; Prof. Florida told a room full of politicians, business leaders and scholars gathered at the university last night.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old has often cited Toronto as one of his favourite places and one of the more &#8220;creative&#8221; cities with the potential to be one of the top 20 research and economic hubs in the world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Globe and Mail: TORONTO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Internationally renowned urban thinker and best-selling author Richard Florida was formally welcomed to the University of Toronto&#8217;s business school last night &#8211; and he plans on jumping straight into his research next week. Prof. Florida, whose arrival is a coup for the university, will lead the newly established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-canada-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}