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Requirements and demands of Munich’s creative knowledge workers Understanding the attractiveness of the metropolitan region for creative knowledge workers ISBN 978-90-75246-74-2 Printed in the Netherlands by Xerox Service Center, Amsterdam Edition: 2008 Cartography lay-out and cover: Puikang Chan, AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam All publications in this series are published on the ACRE-website http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/acre and most are available on paper at: Dr. Olga Gritsai, ACRE project manager University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel. +31 20 525 4044 +31 23 528 2955 Fax +31 20 525 4051 E-mail [email protected] Copyright © Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam 2008. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced in any form, by print or photo print, microfilm or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. Requirements and demands of Munich’s creative knowledge workers Understanding the attractiveness of the metropolitan region for creative knowledge workers ACRE report 5.7 Sabine Hafner Günter Heinritz Manfred Miosga Anne von Streit Accommodating Creative Knowledge – Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union Amsterdam 2008 AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam ACRE ACRE is an acronym of the international research project ‘Accommodating Creative Knowledge – Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union’. The project is funded under the Priority 7 ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society’ within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union (contract no 028270). Coordination: Prof. Sako Musterd University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Participants: Amsterdam (Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Marco Bontje ~ Olga Gritsai ~ Heike Pethe ~ Wim Ostendorf ~ Puikang Chan Barcelona (Centre de Recerca en Economia del Benestar – Centre for Research in Welfare Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain) Montserrat Pareja Eastaway ~ Joaquin Turmo Garuz ~ Montserrat Simó Solsona ~ Lidia Garcia Ferrando ~ Marc Pradel i Miquel Birmingham (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK) Alan Murie ~ Caroline Chapain ~ John Gibney ~ Austin Barber ~ Jane Lutz ~ Julie Brown Budapest (Institute of Geography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Zoltán Kovács ~ Zoltán Dövényi ~ Tamas Egedy ~ Attila Csaba Kondor ~ Balázs Szabó Helsinki (Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland) Mari Vaattovaara ~ Tommi Inkinen ~ Kaisa Kepsu Leipzig (Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography, Germany) Joachim Burdack ~ Günter Herfert ~ Bastian Lange ~ Katja Manz ~ Robert Nadler Munich (Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Germany) Günter Heinritz ~ Sabine Hafner ~ Manfred Miosga ~ Anne von Streit Poznan (Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz ~ Jerzy J. Parysek ~ Tomasz Kaczmarek ~ Michal Meczynski Riga (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia) Anders Paalzow ~ Diana Pauna ~ Vjacheslav Dombrovsky ~ Roberts Kilis ~ Arnis Sauka Sofia (Centre for Social Practices, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) Evgenii Dainov ~ Vassil Garnizov ~ Maria Pancheva ~ Ivan Nachev ~ Lilia Kolova Toulouse (Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban and Sociological Studies, University of Toulouse-II Le Mirail, Toulouse, France) Denis Eckert ~ Christiane Thouzellier ~ Elisabeth Peyroux ~ Michel Grossetti ~ Mariette Sibertin-Blanc ~ Frédéric Leriche ~ Florence Laumière ~ Jean-Marc Zuliani ~ Corinne Siino ~ Martine Azam ~ Hélène Martin-Brelot Milan (Department of Sociology and Social research, University degli Studi di Milan Bicocca, Italy) Enzo Mingione ~ Francesca Zajczyk ~ Elena dell’Agnese ~ Silvia Mugnano ~ Marianna d’Ovidio ~ Carla Sedini Dublin (School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland) Declan Redmond ~ Brendan Williams ~ Niamh Moore ~ Veronica Crossa ~ Martin Sokol ~ Enda Murphy Table of contents Executive summary.......................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Introduction and outline of the report ..................................................................................... 3 1.2 The Munich Metropolitan Region and its creative knowledge policy.................................... 4 1.2.1 The Munich region ................................................................................................................ 4 1.2.2 Policies supporting the creative knowledge sector................................................................ 8 1.3 Creative knowledge workers and graduates in the Munich region....................................... 11 1.3.1 Graduates from creative and knowledge-intensive disciplines ........................................... 11 1.3.2 Creative knowledge workers in the Munich region ............................................................ 14 2 Methodology........................................................................................................................ 19 2.1 Creating the questionnaire .................................................................................................... 19 2.1.2 Steps involved in creating the questionnaire....................................................................... 19 2.1.3 Content and structure of the questionnaire.......................................................................... 21 2.2 Sampling ............................................................................................................................... 21 2.2.1 Sampling process................................................................................................................. 21 2.2.2 Selection criteria.................................................................................................................. 22 2.3 Application of the questionnaire........................................................................................... 25 2.4 Problems and limitations....................................................................................................... 25 3 Results.................................................................................................................................. 27 3.1 Munich’s creative knowledge workers ................................................................................. 27 3.1.1 Demographic features of Munich’s creative knowledge workers: Who are they?.............. 27 3.1.2 Basic residential features of Munich’s creative knowledge workers – where and how do they live? ........................................................................................................................ 30 3.1.3 Basic employment features of Munich’s creative knowledge workers: What work do they do, and where do they work?....................................................................................... 33 3.2 Reasons for Munich as a place to live .................................................................................. 37 3.3 Satisfaction with the city....................................................................................................... 40 3.3.1 The leisure activities of Munich’s creative knowledge workers ......................................... 42 3.3.2 Relationship between place of residence and leisure activities........................................... 43 3.3.3 Satisfaction with what the city of Munich has to offer........................................................ 44 3.3.4 Problem areas in the city, from the point of view of the knowledge-based workers .......... 46 3.3.5 Munich as a tolerant region: What do the knowledge-based workers think?...................... 48 3.3.6 Satisfaction with neighbourhood and living environment................................................... 49 3.4 Satisfaction with job and work environment ........................................................................ 54 3.5 Factors relating to satisfaction with the city of Munich........................................................ 56 3.5.1 The influence of demographic factors................................................................................. 56 3.5.2 The influence of job-related factors on satisfaction with the city of Munich / the Munich region ..................................................................................................................... 60 3.6 The influence of various factors on mobility........................................................................ 64 3.6.1 The influence of age on mobility ........................................................................................ 65 3.6.2 The influence of level of education on mobility ................................................................