Knowledge-based development for cities and societies: integrated multi-level approaches

This book enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based development policies, creation of knowledge cities and prosperous knowledge societies. This reference creates a knowledge base for scholars, managers and urban developers and increases the awareness of the role of knowledge cities and knowledge societies in the knowledge era, as well as of the challenges and opportunities for future research--Provided by publisher.

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1. Knowledge-based value generation -- 2. Building successful knowledge cities in the context of the knowledge-based economy -- 3. Attracting and retaining knowledge workers -- 4. The impact of proximity dimensions on the knowledge diffusion process -- 5. The interaction between local and regional knowledge-based development -- 6. Making space and place for knowledge production -- 7. Essentials for developing a prosperous knowledge city -- 8. Personal knowledge management by the knowledge citizen -- 9. Deep knowledge as the core of sustainable societies -- 10. Knowledge worker profile -- 11. Up the junction? Exploiting knowledge-based development through supply chain and SME cluster interactions -- 12. Creativity and knowledge-based urban development in a Nordic welfare state -- 13. The role of the built environment in the creation, cultivation and acquisition of a knowledge-base -- 14. Using communities of practice to share knowledge in a knowledge city -- 15. Singapore -- 16. Israel -- 17. Orchestrating knowledge-based urban development -- 18. Rising northern light -- 19. Knowledge management orientation and business performance.