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the national studies in the USA and Canada and from the results in northern Canada. It is, indeed,
surprising, since typically TPI is correlated with well-educated and abundant human capital. In
Alaska high-tech activities appear to be unrelated to local educational attainment or creative capital
(although TI and the TPI still have considerable covariance). The concentration of high-tech
employment is, perhaps, governed by other factors such as location of government agencies and
universities.
Figure 4: Creative Capital Indices in Alaska
In accordance with the adopted methodology, correlation coefficients were used to assess the
consistency (reliability and validity) of the creative capital measures and to statistically analyze the
relationships among them. Correlation coefficients illustrated close associations (Table 3) among
different creative class indices that were a likely sign of reliability of these measures. These results
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