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100			_aYigitcanlar, Tan & Others Eds. _986785
245			_aBuilding prosperous knowledge cities : policies, plans and metrics
260			_aCheltenham _bEdward Elgar Publishing Limited _c2012
300			_axxix,386p.
505			_aContents: 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
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