Creating Knowledge Locations in the city: A handbook
BoekThis book focuses on one particular way to promote the urban knowledge economy: the creation of knowledge ‘hotspots’.
Many cities and regions have the ambition to promote their ‘knowledge economy’: it is generally recognized that knowledge has become the prime source of wealth in advanced economies. This book focuses on one particular way to promote the urban knowledge economy: the creation of knowledge ‘hotspots’. Chapter 2 is about the idea behind the hotspot: how to develop and elaborate an appropriate concept (biotech? ICT? Creative industries?), and make sure that it is realised? Chapter 3 focuses on the question how to promote innovation and interaction in a knowledge hotspot: what tools are available? What can we realistically expect? Chapter 4 turns to the management question: how to run a knowledge hotspot, in its various development stages? The chapter does not provide a single answer, but presents a range of governance models that may be applied in different situations. Chapter 5 deals with a special relationship: the one between city and university. This sometimes-difficult marriage is nevertheless an important factor for the success of knowledge hotspots. Chapter 6, finally, raises the question of integration. What is (or should be) the relation between a knowledge hotspot and the rest of the city? How can the two be integrated in a fruitful way, in different situations? For each topic, some lessons and pitfalls are derived, that may help policymakers and developers to make soundly-based decisions.The annex, finally, contains a number of examples of knowledge hotspots in European cities. Most examples are from member cities of the REDIS network, but some other cases are added as well.
