Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks

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ISBN: 9780415455916 | 041545591X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/3/2008

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Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networkscombines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual / intelligent environments. It explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation; opens up a new way for making intelligent environments via the connection of human skills, institutional mechanisms, and digital spaces operating within a community; and describes a series of platforms and tools for the making of intelligent cities.

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Globalisation of innovation and intelligent cities	p. 5
An intelligent global world is emerging	p. 7
A new global setting	p. 7
Globalisation of innovation	p. 8
Europe in search of innovation	p. 11
Innovation reshaping core and periphery	p. 13
Innovation turning a new leaf for cities	p. 15
Trading innovation with intelligent environments	p. 16
Intelligent environments	p. 17
Regions of innovation excellence: learning from the best	p. 21
A new model of regional development	p. 21
The rise of the innovation economy in the EU	p. 23
Regions of innovation excellence in Europe	p. 30
The core of excellence: regional systems of innovation	p. 33
Making the core of excellence: four stages of evolution	p. 38
Systems of innovation: continuous spatial enlargement	p. 45
Widening systems of innovation	p. 45
Innovation	p. 47
Towards systems of innovation	p. 49
What makes an innovation system?	p. 54
Enlargement I: cluster-type innovation systems	p. 56
Enlargement II: regional systems of innovation	p. 64
Enlargement III: intelligent global systems of innovation	p. 71
Governance of territorial systems of innovation	p. 73
Virtual innovation environments: enriching innovation systems with global networks and users participation	p. 77
Innovation as an environmental condition	p. 77
Virtual innovation environments	p. 80
Functioning of VIEs	p. 89
Reception of VIEs: lessons from the 'VERITE' network	p. 91
'VERITE' as a virtual community	p. 95
Learning impact	p. 100
Direct impact	p. 102
Innovation on virtual space	p. 106
Intelligent cities: the emergence of the concept	p. 110
Intelligent cities: bridging physical and virtual worlds	p. 110
Cyberspaces and cyber cities	p. 113
Smart communities	p. 116
Intelligent communities	p. 117
Intelligent environments of innovation - Living Labs	p. 119
Defining intelligent cities	p. 120
Three layers of intelligent cities	p. 123
A glimpse at intelligent cities around the world	p. 125
Metrics	p. 131
Building blocks of intelligent cities	p. 135
Strategic economic intelligence: global watch on markets and technologies	p. 137
Innovative regions in search of intelligence	p. 137
Strategic economic intelligence: business, cluster, and regional	p. 140
Main components of strategic economic intelligence	p. 149
Integration of distributed intelligence	p. 156
Meta-foresight: an experiment in strategic economic intelligence	p. 160
The Meta-foresight platform	p. 161
Sectoral/cluster intelligence	p. 166
Strategic business intelligence	p. 168
Strategic economic intelligence: the search for the 'next big thing'	p. 172
Technology transfer and acquisition: virtual spaces valorising academic research	p. 174
Getting state-of-the-art technology	p. 174
The landscape of technology transfer	p. 175
The turn towards academia	p. 177
Technology transfer as communication	p. 180
Blending cooperation networks and virtual spaces	p. 181
The DRC: a virtual space for the valorisation of academic research	p. 183
Augmented technology transfer	p. 192
Innovation through collaboration: managing networks that cross boundaries	p. 195
Innovation through collaboration	p. 195
The logic of collaborative innovation networks	p. 196
Selection of partners: trust vs. competence	p. 200
Spatiality of collaboration: contact vs. cost	p. 202
Digital spatiality and networking	p. 204
Managing collaborative innovation networks: three experiments	p. 205
InnoCentive: innovation based on global networks	p. 205
Regional Innovation Poles: multilevel regional innovation networks	p. 208
New product development based on vertical networks	p. 216
Collaborative innovation as intelligent space	p. 222
Digital cities and e-marketplaces: global promotion of localities, products and services	p. 226
The last mile of innovation	p. 226
Digital cities: broadband networks and online services	p. 227
Broadband network	p. 230
Online services	p. 233
e-City marketplaces	p. 235
e-City promotion	p. 240
e-Government	p. 242
Sustainability of digital cities and e-marketplaces	p. 245
Building blocks of intelligent cities: architecture of layers and functions	p. 247
Two movements shaping intelligent cities	p. 247
Intelligent cities as territorial systems of innovation	p. 249
Intelligent cities as digital spaces of collaboration	p. 257
Integration: knowledge functions of intelligent cities	p. 261
The architecture of intelligent cities	p. 267
Intelligent cities: a window to global innovation networks	p. 270
Five platforms for intelligent cities	p. 275
Notes	p. 283
References	p. 284
Index	p. 301
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