5. Conclusions
In this paper, we analyzed the nature of R&D that led to Schumpeterian economic growth in a region that was creative in the sense of Richard Florida. The engine of economic growth in our creative region was process innovations that led to quality improvements in the machines that were used to produce a final consumption good such as a smartphone. First, we showed that in the BGP equilibrium, growth was unbalanced because R&D took place only on the machine line with the highest quality. Second, we demonstrated that in principle, our model could be altered by a policymaker so as to generate balanced growth in the sense that the resulting equilibrium had R&D across all the different machine lines.