It was
American economist Richard Florida, who coined the term “creative class”. He
described the phenomenon in his “Rise of the Creative Class”. Strategy-2020 by
Vladimir Putin has introduced the term to Russian political science and
economics. According to authors, it is the creative class that bears the
innovative thinking and the entrepreneurship spirit. The hopes for the timely
modernization are still pinned to it — deprived of that, Russia is destined to
become yet another “third world” country.
