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Urban Knowledge and Innovation Spaces - Insights, Inspirations and Inclinations from Global Practices (Hardcover)
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Urban Knowledge and Innovation Spaces - Insights, Inspirations and Inclinations from Global Practices (Hardcover)
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The expansion of knowledge economy, globalization, and economic
competitiveness has imparted importance of knowledge and innovation
in local economies worldwide. As a result, integrating knowledge
generation and innovation considerations in urban planning and
development processes has become an important agenda for
establishing sustainable growth and long-term competitiveness of
contemporary cities. Today, making space and place that concentrate
on knowledge generation and innovation is a priority for many
cities across the globe. Urban knowledge and innovation spaces are
integrated centres of knowledge generation, learning,
commercialization and lifestyle. In other words, they are
high-growth knowledge industry and worker clusters, and distinguish
the functional activity in an area, where agglomeration of
knowledge and technological activities has positive externalities
for the rest of the city as well as firms located there. Urban
knowledge and innovation spaces are generally established with two
primary objectives in mind: to be a seedbed for knowledge and
technology and to play an incubator role nurturing the development
and growth of new, small, high-technology firms; and to act as a
catalyst for regional economic development that promotes economic
growth and contributes to the development of the city as a
'knowledge or innovative city'. This book contains chapters
reporting investigation findings on different aspects of urban
knowledge and innovation spaces, such as urban planning and design,
innovation systems, urban knowledge management, and regional
science. It was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Urban Technology.
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