Intelligent cities and globalisation of innovation networks / Nicos Komninos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Komninos, Nicos.

Series:

Regions and cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Technological innovations.

City planning.

Regional planning--Technological innovations.

Regional planning.

Information networks--Social aspects.

Information networks.

Communication--Technological innovations.

Communication.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Intelligent cities and globalization of innovation networks

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

The development of a city in the twenty-first century is at the crossroad of the rising knowledge economy and the increasing digitalisation of contemporary urban life. Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks outlines a new paradigm of urban and regional development, emerging from the meeting of the knowledge economy with the virtual world and the global outsourcing networks.

This book assesses the evolution and continuous spatial enlargement of territorial systems of innovation under the pressure of globalisation, and the rise of intelligent environments (clusters, cities, regions) as a means of dealing with global information networks, global new product development, and global knowledge outsourcing. It also looks at the knowledge functions of intelligent cities (strategic intelligence, technology absorption, cooperative new product development, global supply chains and digital-city marketplaces) as essential building blocks of these cities.

It asks key questions of the movement towards intelligent environments and cities, such as: What makes an intelligent city and how do we define it? What makes some cities and regions more efficient in developing knowledge, technologies and innovations? How important is the external urban environment to the innovation performance of an organisation? How is innovation changing along with digitalisation and globalisation? This book will be essential reading for urban and regional planners, development consultants, and innovation professionals, and will be of interest to students and researchers in the field.

Contents:

Part 1 Globalisation of innovation and intelligent cities 5

1 An intelligent global world is emerging 7

A new global setting 7

Globalisation of innovation 8

Europe in search of innovation 11

Innovation reshaping core and periphery 13

Innovation turning a new leaf for cities 15

Trading innovation with intelligent environments 16

Intelligent environments 17

2 Regions of innovation excellence: learning from the best 21

A new model of regional development 21

The rise of the innovation economy in the EU 23

Regions of innovation excellence in Europe 30

The core of excellence: regional systems of innovation 33

Making the core of excellence: four stages of evolution 38

3 Systems of innovation: continuous spatial enlargement 45

Widening systems of innovation 45

Innovation 47

Towards systems of innovation 49

What makes an innovation system? 54

Enlargement I: cluster-type innovation systems 56

Enlargement II: regional systems of innovation 64

Enlargement III: intelligent global systems of innovation 71

Governance of territorial systems of innovation 73

4 Virtual innovation environments: enriching innovation systems with global networks and users participation 77

Innovation as an environmental condition 77

Virtual innovation environments 80

Functioning of VIEs 89

Reception of VIEs: lessons from the 'VERITE' network 91

'VERITE' as a virtual community 95

Learning impact 100

Direct impact 102

Innovation on virtual space 106

5 Intelligent cities: the emergence of the concept 110

Intelligent cities: bridging physical and virtual worlds 110

Cyberspaces and cyber cities 113

Smart communities 116

Intelligent communities 117

Intelligent environments of innovation - Living Labs 119

Defining intelligent cities 120

Three layers of intelligent cities 123

A glimpse at intelligent cities around the world 125

Metrics 131

Part 2 Building blocks of intelligent cities 135

6 Strategic economic intelligence: global watch on markets and technologies 137

Innovative regions in search of intelligence 137

Strategic economic intelligence: business, cluster, and regional 140

Main components of strategic economic intelligence 149

Integration of distributed intelligence 156

Meta-foresight: an experiment in strategic economic intelligence 160

The Meta-foresight platform 161

Sectoral/cluster intelligence 166

Strategic business intelligence 168

Strategic economic intelligence: the search for the 'next big thing' 172

7 Technology transfer and acquisition: virtual spaces valorising academic research 174

Getting state-of-the-art technology 174

The landscape of technology transfer 175

The turn towards academia 177

Technology transfer as communication 180

Blending cooperation networks and virtual spaces 181

The DRC: a virtual space for the valorisation of academic research 183

Augmented technology transfer 192

8 Innovation through collaboration: managing networks that cross boundaries 195

Innovation through collaboration 195

The logic of collaborative innovation networks 196

Selection of partners: trust vs. competence 200

Spatiality of collaboration: contact vs. cost 202

Digital spatiality and networking 204

Managing collaborative innovation networks: three experiments 205

InnoCentive: innovation based on global networks 205

Regional Innovation Poles: multilevel regional innovation networks 208

New product development based on vertical networks 216

Collaborative innovation as intelligent space 222

9 Digital cities and e-marketplaces: global promotion of localities, products and services 226

The last mile of innovation 226

Digital cities: broadband networks and online services 227

Broadband network 230

Online services 233

e-City marketplaces 235

e-City promotion 240

e-Government 242

Sustainability of digital cities and e-marketplaces 245

10 Building blocks of intelligent cities: architecture of layers and functions 247

Two movements shaping intelligent cities 247

Intelligent cities as territorial systems of innovation 249

Intelligent cities as digital spaces of collaboration 257

Integration: knowledge functions of intelligent cities 261

The architecture of intelligent cities 267

Intelligent cities: a window to global innovation networks 270

Appendix Five platforms for intelligent cities 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9780415455916

041545591X

9780415455923

0415455928

OCLC:

187417594