Knowledge Cities:
approaches, experiences and perspectives

Academic Press/Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier
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Table of Contents

Preliminaries

i       Title page                    
ii      Table of Contents                   
iii      List of Contributors                 
iv      Epigraph, From Italo Calvino’s The Invisible Cities   
v       Introduction, Javier Carrillo

I.     Approaches

1.     Kostas Ergazakis, Kostas Metaxiotis, and John Psarras
        An Emerging Pattern of Successful Knowledge Cities’ Main Features

2.     Samuel David Martínez          
        A Comparative Framework for Knowledge Cities

3.     Christian W. Matthiessen, Annette W. Schwarz and Søren Find
        Global Research Centres: An analysis based on bibliometric                     indicators

4.     Javier Carrillo  
        A Taxonomy of Urban Capital


5.     Leif Edvinsson
        K-City and Society Entrepreneurship for Intellectual Capital Growth

6.     Pedro Flores
        Implementation of the Capital System for a Knowledge City

II.        Experiences

7.     Caroline Wong, Chong Ju Choi, and Carla C.J.M. Millar
        The Case of Singapore as a Knowledge-Based City

8.     Jon Azua
        Bilbao: from the Guggenheim to the Knowledge City  

9.     Maya Levin-Sagi, Edna Pasher and Hanah Hertzman
        Holon: Transition into City of Children

10.   Blanca García 
        UniverCities: Innovation and Social capital in Greater Manchester

11.   Jay Chatzkel
        Greater Phoenix as a Knowledge Capital        

12.   Javier Carrillo  
        A Capital System for Monterrey

13.   Karmen Jelcic
        Rijeka: Increasing Efficiency of Intellectual Capital in City Owned Companies

14.   Raphaële Bidault-Waddington
        An experimental aesthetic audit of a city within a city: the case of Christiania

III.  Perspectives

15.   Stephen Chen 
        How much does urban location matter? A comparison of three science parks in China

16.   Luis Rubalcaba and Luis Garrido
        Urban concentration of European business services and the role of regional policies

17.   Jan Lambooy
        Knowledge Dissemination and Innovation in Urban Regions; An Evolutionary Perspective

18.   América Martínez
        Knowledge Citizens: A Competence Profile    

19.   Ron Dvir
        Knowledge City, seen as a Collage of Human Knowledge Moments

20.   Javier Carrillo  
        Reconstructing Urban Experience       

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