The subject matter of the volume we offer the reader is the innovative city.
The author goes beyond the general science-technology-economy pattern which provides a
reference frame in most works on innovativeness. He studies a recombination of economic
factors and activities that stimulates the creativity and innovativeness of the economy,
including the urban economy. He seeks synergistic effects produced by the interaction of
many factors involved in attempts to achieve common goals.
He is critical of investigations limited to the calculation of simple correlations
between knowledge and the economy, and he tries to penetrate intermediate layers occurring
in the knowledge-economy system. He elucidates causes underlying the development of a
network economy in the stage of post-Fordism and a learning economy These new processes
are perceived and ordered as foundations of the sustainable development of cities.
207 pages, Paerback