Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces

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Routledge, 2013 M05 13 - 320 páginas
At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent Cities focuses on these environments of innovation, and the major models (technopoles, innovating regions, intelligent cities) for creating an environment-supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge-based development.
The introduction and the first chapter deal with innovation as an environmental condition, and with the geography and typology of islands of innovation. The next three parts focus on the theoretical paradigms and the planning models of the 'industrial district', the innovating region', and the 'intelligent city', which offer three alternative ways to create an environment of innovation.
 

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Origins Structure and Contents
1
Areas of Technological Innovation
2
Three Theories on the Environment of Innovation
7
Intelligent Cities and Regions
11
Innovation is an Island
17
Technology goes out of Labs
23
Turning Knowledge into Products
29
Components of the Innovation Environment
33
Planning Convergence
145
Coherence of Innovation Strategies
150
Technology Intelligence in Innovating Regions
155
Technological Priorities in the European RD Programmes
157
Critical Technologies at the Beginning of the Twentyfirst Century
162
Technological Priorities for the Less Favoured Regions of the EU
167
Technology Watch Foresight and Assessment
169
Technology Intelligence and Innovating Regions in Europe
177

Technopoles and Science Parks Innovation as Spatial Proximity
39
CHAPTER 2 Districts and Technopoles in Europe
41
Innovation within Flexible Production Complexes
47
Technopoles and Science Parks in Europe
53
Spatial Proximity and Technology Integration
62
Technology Poles in the Less Favoured Regions of Europe
69
Technology Attraction in the Andalusia Technology Park
70
Technology Transfer from the Technical University of Crete
75
Innovation in a Wine District of South Italy
80
Technology Poles in the Less Favoured Regions of Europe
83
The Weak Link
87
Weaknesses of the Innovation Environment of Technopoles
88
Good Practice in Science Park Planning
90
Strengthening the Technology Dimension of Planned Technopoles
95
Innovating Regions Innovation as an Institution
103
Regional Innovation Strategies in Europe
105
The Regional Technology Plan of Central Macedonia
112
Foundations of Regional Innovation Strategies
133
Regional versus National Innovation Strategies
139
Theoretical Convergence
142
Intelligent Cities Islands of Innovation meet the Digital World
181
Intelligent Cities Islands of Innovation become Digital
183
Cities Globalization and Knowledgebased Development
184
Smart Communities in the US
188
European Digital Cities
192
Intelligent versus Digital Cities
195
Components of an Intelligent City
201
RealVirtual Technopoles
209
A Virtual Network of European Technology Parks
211
The Module of Technology Evaluation
217
Integrating Real and Virtual Technology Transfer Functions
228
RealVirtual Regional Innovation Systems
233
Regional Innovation Strategies and Dematerialization of Infrastructure
234
A Transregional Innovation Project
237
Deconstructing Innovation
242
Learning to Innovate in RealVirtual Spaces
260
Notes
269
References
273
Index
289
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Nicos Komninos is professor of Urban Development and Innovation Policy in the School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and he has taught in universities in France, Italy, and the UK. His research interests focus on the areas and environment of technological innovation. He is the author of numerous scientific books, director of the research unit URENIO (Urban and Regional Innovation) and has co-ordinated many project of the European Commission.

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