Innovation and the City – Innovative Cities
Special Issue of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice
Volume 10 Issue 2-3 December 2008
ii+182 pages ISBN 978-1-921348-17-4
Editor:
Jane Marceau
Adjunct Professor, City Futures Research Centre
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Innovation has become the catchcry of policymakers in most OECD countries as they seek to ensure continued prosperity in changed technological and competitive circumstances. Observers have discussed multiple aspects of innovation, including its stimulants, processes and systems. Others have focused on the geographical distribution of innovative firms, their relationships with universities and other public and private sector knowledge generation and diffusion organizations. Usually this work has focused on regions rather than cities and the characteristics of urban space as an innovation hub or laboratory. This collection of cutting edge policy papers focuses on innovation and cities.
It has long been said that cities are innovation nodes and that much change derives from the crowded life of metropolitan areas. Research here focuses on 'the city' in innovation, and the differences between cities which stimulate innovation. Many of these papers focus on innovation's role in the city's economic growth, sustainability and social and cultural development. They widen the sphere of analysis from institutional arrangements, governance, education, the organization of housing and transport, social and cultural services and garbage removal to a critical new emphasis on ecologically sustainable city activities, including:
- Economic development and technological change
- Transport and city logistics
- Housing
- Sustainability, including the conservation of water and energy
- Education delivery and focus
- Cultural and artistic development
- Urban governance
- Urban finance and management
Case studies explore implementation of policy, and its impacts on social equality and wellbeing.
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Editor:
Jason Potts School of Economics, The University of Queensland
Please contact the Guest Editor with an Abstract of your paper in advance: j.potts@uq.edu.au.
Please follow journal Author Guidelines and submit your manuscript by the above deadline to: editorial@innovation-enterprise.com.
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