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Creative Knowledge Cities
Myths, Visions and Realities
Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies.
Monograph Book
- Published in print:
- 30 Mar 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780857932846
- eISBN:
- 9780857932853
- Pages:
- 488
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- Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Creative Cities in a Knowledge Society: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Theory and Practice of the Creative City Thesis: Experiences from Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- Chapter 3: The Sustainability of Knowledge-related Policies in Technology-based Cities in the Netherlands
- Chapter 4: Two Critical Notes on the Meaning of the New Middle Class for Creative Knowledge City Policies
- Chapter 5: Developing Knowledge Cities: Towards Aligning Urban and Campus Strategies
- Chapter 6: Science Parks: Changing Roles and Changing Approaches in their Evaluation
- Chapter 7: The Academic Entrepreneur: Myth or Reality for Increased Regional growth in Europe?
- Chapter 8: From Exit to Excellence: Turning Old Industry Regions into Knowledge Regions through Triple Helix Processes
- Chapter 9: A Map of Human Capital in European Cities
- Chapter 10: Social Capital’s and Absorptive Capacities’ Impact on New Ventures’ Growth
- Chapter 11: Innovation Networks in a Cross-border Context: The Case of Vienna
- Chapter 12: Spatial Network-based and Regional Proximity in US Biotechnology
- Chapter 13: Interlocking Firm Networks in the German Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich
- Chapter 14: Knowledge Exchange in Trans-national City Networks: Evolutionary Mechanisms in Cross-local Learning Among European Cities
- Chapter 15: Location Patterns of Advanced Producer Services Firms: The Case of São Paulo
- Chapter 16: Knowledge Spillovers through Informal Contacts in Urban Production Systems: The Case of ICT Firms in Campinas, Brazil
- Chapter 17: Making Shanghai a Creative City: Exploring the Creative Cluster Strategy from a Chinese Perspective
- Index
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- 30 Mar 2012
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- Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Creative Cities in a Knowledge Society: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Theory and Practice of the Creative City Thesis: Experiences from Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- Chapter 3: The Sustainability of Knowledge-related Policies in Technology-based Cities in the Netherlands
- Chapter 4: Two Critical Notes on the Meaning of the New Middle Class for Creative Knowledge City Policies
- Chapter 5: Developing Knowledge Cities: Towards Aligning Urban and Campus Strategies
- Chapter 6: Science Parks: Changing Roles and Changing Approaches in their Evaluation
- Chapter 7: The Academic Entrepreneur: Myth or Reality for Increased Regional growth in Europe?
- Chapter 8: From Exit to Excellence: Turning Old Industry Regions into Knowledge Regions through Triple Helix Processes
- Chapter 9: A Map of Human Capital in European Cities
- Chapter 10: Social Capital’s and Absorptive Capacities’ Impact on New Ventures’ Growth
- Chapter 11: Innovation Networks in a Cross-border Context: The Case of Vienna
- Chapter 12: Spatial Network-based and Regional Proximity in US Biotechnology
- Chapter 13: Interlocking Firm Networks in the German Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich
- Chapter 14: Knowledge Exchange in Trans-national City Networks: Evolutionary Mechanisms in Cross-local Learning Among European Cities
- Chapter 15: Location Patterns of Advanced Producer Services Firms: The Case of São Paulo
- Chapter 16: Knowledge Spillovers through Informal Contacts in Urban Production Systems: The Case of ICT Firms in Campinas, Brazil
- Chapter 17: Making Shanghai a Creative City: Exploring the Creative Cluster Strategy from a Chinese Perspective
- Index