Contents:
list of contributors viii
Foreword
Competing: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become Prosperous xi
Peter Franz
Preface
Introducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge Cities xix
Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier Carrillo
PART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy 3
Björn T. Asheim
2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of Denmark 24
Mark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen
3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology Precincts 40
Gülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu
4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? 60
Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor
5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban Space 74
Kirsten Martinus
6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in Germany 96
Stefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski
7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City Transformation 111
Octavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América Martínez
PART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant Ecosystem 133
Cathy Garner and Anne Dornan
9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge Cities 149
Kostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis
10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of Eindhoven 175
Ana María Fernández-Maldonado
11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney 195
Richard Hu
12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation
Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke 213
13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small Business 228
Joan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn
14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL Universities 241
James A. Powell
15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge Region 260
Caren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus Wermker
PART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES
16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge Economy 279
Kevin Johnson
17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and Perspectives 309
Francisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores
18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and Boston 327
Tan Yigitcanlar
19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi Exercise 352
Alicia Leal and Blanca C. Garcia
20 Afterword
Concluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities 374
Joris van Wezemael
Index 383