Urban Innovation Networks

Author : Alexander Gutzmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319246246

Get Book

Urban Innovation Networks by Alexander Gutzmer Pdf

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for corporate innovation. The main argument is that companies have to build what the author calls “urban innovation networks.” After a theory-based outline of such networks, the author demonstrates the extent to which different institutional players – companies such as Audi, Ikea and Siemens, but also arts institutions like the Haus der Kunst in Munich – are already working to create them. The book combines management thinking with urban theory and the sociology of networks to create a unique blend of different views of capitalism and space, offering a new perspective on both the modern metropolis and globally operating companies active within our distinctly urban culture.

Author : Jenny M. Lewis,Lykke Margot Ricard,Erik Hans Klijn,Tamyko Ysa Figueras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317375456

Get Book

Innovation in City Governments by Jenny M. Lewis,Lykke Margot Ricard,Erik Hans Klijn,Tamyko Ysa Figueras Pdf

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services that have value for stakeholders (such as citizens) in terms of the social and political outcomes they produce. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership establishes an analytical framework of innovation capacity based on three dimensions: Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure Networks – interpersonal connections inside and outside the organization Leadership – the qualities and capabilities of senior individuals within the organization. Each of these are analysed using data from a comparative EU research project in Copenhagen, Barcelona and Rotterdam. The book provides major new insights on how structures, networks and leadership in city governments shape the social innovation capacity of cities. It provides ground-breaking analyses of how governance structures and local socio-economic challenges, are related to the innovations introduced by these cities. The volume maps and analyses the social networks of the three cities and examines boundary spanning within and outside of the cities. It also examines what leadership qualities are important for innovation. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership combines an original analytical approach with comparative empirical work, to generate a novel perspective on the social innovation capacity of cities and is critical reading for academics, students and policy makers alike in the fields of Public Management, Public Administration, Local Government, Policy, Innovation and Leadership.

Author : Jennifer Clark
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231545785

Get Book

Uneven Innovation by Jennifer Clark Pdf

The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more sustainable, and more inclusive. Is this true? In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark considers the potential of these emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate existing inequalities and even produce new ones. She reframes the smart city concept within the trajectory of uneven development of cities and regions, as well as the long history of technocratic solutions to urban policy challenges. Clark argues that urban change driven by the technology sector is following the patterns that have previously led to imbalanced access, opportunities, and outcomes. The tech sector needs the city, yet it exploits and maintains unequal arrangements, embedding labor flexibility and precarity in the built environment. Technology development, Uneven Innovation contends, is the easy part; understanding the city and its governance, regulation, access, participation, and representation—all of which are complex and highly localized—is the real challenge. Clark’s critique leads to policy prescriptions that present a path toward an alternative future in which smart cities result in more equitable communities.

Author : Willem van Winden,Erik Braun,Alexander Otgaar,Jan-Jelle Witte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317917441

Get Book

Urban Innovation Systems by Willem van Winden,Erik Braun,Alexander Otgaar,Jan-Jelle Witte Pdf

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations? What are the ingredients of success? Can innovative cities be created and stimulated, or do they just flourish by mere chance? This book analyses the development and management of innovation systems in cities, in order to provide a better understanding of what makes such systems perform. The book opens by developing a conceptual model that combines insights from urban economics with economic geography, urban governance and place marketing. This highlights the relevance of path dependence, different types of proximity (and the role of clusters, networks and platforms), institutional conditions, place attractiveness and place identity in the evolution of local innovation systems. The authors then draw on this conceptual framework to structure empirical case studies in three cities with a relatively high innovation performance: Eindhoven (the Netherlands), Stockholm (Sweden) and Suzhou (China). Through these case studies they provide a detailed analysis of how successful innovation systems evolve and what makes them tick. Unique to this book is the linking of analysis to concrete policy and management responses. The book ends with a discussion on six themes in the development of successful urban innovation systems: firm-capabilities and leader firms, higher education and research, attractive environment, place branding, institutional environment and entrepreneurship. Each theme is examined fully, drawing lessons from the case studies, and from recent insights and other cases discussed in the literature. This title will be of interest to students, researchers and policymakers involved in regional innovation systems, knowledge locations and cluster development.

Author : James Simme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134996209

Get Book

Innovation Networks and Learning Regions? by James Simme Pdf

Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions? address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. Developing the idea that innovation is the primary driving force behind economic change and growth, the international range of contributors stress the importance of knowledge and information as the 'raw materials' of innovation. They examine the ways in which these elements may be acquired and linked through networks, and demonstrate that there are empirical examples of innovative areas which do not have highly developed networks yet appear to be relatively successful in terms of local economic growth. In so doing, they raise crucial questions about the ways in which regions or localities might be described as truly 'learning' areas, and about the sustainability of future economic and quality of life success based on innovation and high-technology.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264438217

Get Book

Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Government by OECD Pdf

Cities are reinventing themselves to adapt and respond to their evolving contexts. One instrument that local government is leveraging is innovation. To understand how cities approach public sector innovation, the OECD and Bloomberg Philanthropies carried out a survey on innovation capacity across 89 cities in OECD countries and non-OECD economies. The focus of the survey was to unpack the capacity to innovate in the local public sector and explore the resources – human, financial, and institutional – and how they can work to boost innovation in a city.

Author : David Morley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429727955

Get Book

Making Cities Work: The Dynamics Of Urban Innovation by David Morley Pdf

This book is an outcome of the conference 'Urban Innovation: Working Solutions to the Problems of Human Settlement' held in 1977. It focuses on urban innovations as working alternatives that reflect an institutional capacity to adapt complex human systems in response to basic environmental change.

Author : Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135130107

Get Book

The Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks by Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema Pdf

The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature. This present volume breaks with the TIM literature in several important ways. In the first place, this book emphasizes the role of individual agency because individuals and their networks are increasingly recognized as the principal agents of knowledge creation. Secondly, this volume looks at space as a continuous field of opportunity rather than as bounded territory with a set of endowments, such as knowledge base and social capital. Although individually these elements are not new to the TIM literature, it has thus far failed to grasp their critical implication for studying the social dynamics of innovation networks. The approach to the socio-spatial context of innovation in this volume is summarized as Knowledge Economy 2.0. It emphasizes that human creativity is now the main source of economic value and that human creativity and knowledge creation is not an organized process within organizations, but happens bottom up in formal and informal professional and social networks of individuals that cut across multiple organizations.

Author : Manfred M. Fischer,Luis Suarez-Villa,Michael Steiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642585241

Get Book

Innovation, Networks and Localities by Manfred M. Fischer,Luis Suarez-Villa,Michael Steiner Pdf

The relationship between innovation, networks and localities is of central concern for many nations. However, despite increasing interest in the components of this research triangle, efforts in these fields are hampered by a lackofconceptual and empirical insights. This volume brings together contributions from a distinguished group of scholars working in different but related disciplines, and aims to provide a fresh look at this research triangle. The objective is to offer a concise overview of current developments and insights derived from recent studies in Europe and North America. All of the contributions are based on original research undertaken in the various regions and nations and are published here for the first time. We are grateful to all those who have contributed to this volume for their willingness to participate in the project. Without their co-operation this book would not have been possible. We should like, in addition, to thank Angela Spence for her careful linguistic editing and assistance in co-ordinating the production of the camera ready copy. Lastly, but not least, we wish to express our gratitude for support from our home institutions, and in particular the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Urban and Regional Research), the Austrian Ministry for Science and Transport, the Styrian Government (Section for Science and Research) and the Federation of Austrian Industry in Styria for the financial backing received. April 1999 Manfred M.

Author : Anant Kamath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317598893

Get Book

Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development by Anant Kamath Pdf

This book offers an innovative examination of how ‘low–technology’ industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of social relations. This book examines industrial innovation and microeconomic network behaviour among producers and clusters, perceiving knowledge diffusion to be a socially-spatial, as much as a geographically spatial, phenomenon. This is achieved by employing two methods – simulation modelling, and (quantitative, qualitative, and historical) social network analysis. The simulation model, based on its findings, motivates two empirical studies – one descriptive case and one network study – of low-tech rural and semi-urban traditional technology clusters in Kerala state in southern India. These cases demonstrate two contrasting stories of how social cohesion either supports or thwarts informal information sharing and learning. This book pushes towards an economic-sociology approach to understanding knowledge diffusion and technological learning, which perceives innovation and learning as being more social processes than the mainstream view perceives them to be. In doing so, it makes a significant contribution to the literature on defensive innovation and the role of networks in technological innovation and knowledge diffusion, as well as to policy studies of Indian small firm and traditional technology clusters.

Author : Andrea Fronzetti Colladon,Francesca Grippa,Peter A. Gloor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1159428041

Get Book

Collaborative Innovation Networks by Andrea Fronzetti Colladon,Francesca Grippa,Peter A. Gloor Pdf

Author : Nicos Komninos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134049806

Get Book

Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks by Nicos Komninos Pdf

Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks combines 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 intelli

Author : Müge Özman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107071346

Get Book

Strategic Management of Innovation Networks by Müge Özman Pdf

This textbook provides a theoretical and practical guide on how to manage social networks to increase innovation and improve performance.

Author : Fu-Sheng Tsai,Wenqing Wu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832538098

Get Book

Asian pharmaceutical and medical device industry innovation - perspectives up to 2050 by Fu-Sheng Tsai,Wenqing Wu Pdf

Author : Andrew Karvonen,Federico Cugurullo,Federico Caprotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351166188

Get Book

Inside Smart Cities by Andrew Karvonen,Federico Cugurullo,Federico Caprotti Pdf

The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of cities around the globe. Inside Smart Cities provides real-world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional scales. Twenty three empirically detailed case studies from the Global North and South – ranging from Cape Town, Stockholm and Abu Dhabi to Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Santiago – illustrate the multiple and diverse incarnations of smart urbanism. The contributors draw on ideas from urban studies, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies and innovation studies to go beyond the rhetoric of technological innovation and reveal the political, social and physical implications of digitalising the built environment. Collectively, the practices of smart urbanism raise fundamental questions about the sustainability, liveability and resilience of cities in the future. The findings are relevant to academics, students, practitioners and urban stakeholders who are questioning how urban innovation relates to politics and place.