ABSTRACT
Processes of innovation require creative and talented people. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development necessarily create opportunities for the employment of the highly skilled. Nevertheless, such labour is unevenly distributed geographically – it is not generated everywhere and there is a severe competition for highly skilled and creative personnel. The fact that the highly skilled are concentrated in certain places indicates more than just that some locations attract such labour while others do not. It shows that certain institutions and structures need to exist to ensure that skills are both offered and employed.
