Author : Tan Yigitcanlar
Release : 2012
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities by : Tan Yigitcanlar
Download or read book Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities written by Tan Yigitcanlar. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword: Competing: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become Prosperous / Peter Franz -- Preface: Introducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge Cities / Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Javier Carrillo -- Pt. I. Policies for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalising Knowledge Economy / Bjorn Asheim -- 2. Creating: The Creative Class-based Knowledge City Models of Denmark / Mark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen -- 3. Organising: Spontaneously-developed Urban Technology Precincts / Gulnur Cevikayak and Koray Velibeyoglu -- 4. Globalising: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? / Glen Searle and Kevin O'Connor -- 5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Cafe and the Attraction of Urban Space / Kirsten Martinus -- 6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in Germany / Stefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski -- 7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens' Competences and Knowledge City Transformation / Octavio Gonzalez, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and America Martinez -- Pt. II. Plans for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant Ecosystem / Cathy Garner and Anne Dornan -- 9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge Cities / Kostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis -- 10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of Eindhoven / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado -- 11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney / Richard Hu -- 12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation / Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaina Macke -- 13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small Business / Kay Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn -- 14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL Universities / James Powell -- 15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge Region / Caren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus Wermker -- Pt. III. Metrics for building prosperous knowledge cities -- 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne's Knowledge Economy / Kevin Johnson -- 17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and Perspectives / Francisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores -- 18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and Boston / Tan Yigitcanlar -- 19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi Exercise / Alicia Leal and Blanca Garcia -- 20. Afterword Concluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities / Joris van Wazemael.