Super-creative core: This group comprises about 12 percent of all U.S. jobs. It includes a wide range of occupations (e.g. science, engineering, education, computer programming, research), with arts, design, and media workers forming a small subset. Florida considers those belonging to this group to "fully engage in the creative process" (2002, p. 69). The Super-Creative Core is considered innovative, creating commercial products and consumer goods. The primary job function of its members is to be creative and innovative. "Along with problem solving, their work may entail problem finding" (Florida, 2002, p. 69).
Creative professionals: These professionals are the classic knowledge-based workers and include those working in healthcare, business and finance, the legal profession, and education. They "draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems" using higher degrees of education to do so (Florida, 2002).

The creative class is the posit of American urban studies theorist Richard Florida for an ostensible socioeconomic class. Florida, a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto,[1] maintains that the creative class is a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in the United States.[2]

Richard Florida, né en 1957 à Newark dans le New Jersey, est géographe, professeur en urban studies nord-américain.

Richard Florida est docteur de l'Université Columbia en aménagement urbain. Il est actuellement professeur et directeur du Martin Prosperity Institute, qui fait partie de la Rotman School of Management de l'Université de Toronto. Il a également créé une société de conseil, The Creative Class Group, qui aide les villes et les collectivités territoriales d'Amérique du Nord à renforcer leur attractivité. Son autobiographie intellectuelle se trouve dans l’introduction de Cities and the Creative Class (p. 7-20, « Where My Ideas Come From »).