Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Kostas Metaxiotis, University of Piraeus, Greece and Francisco Javier Carrillo, President, The World Capital Institute and Emeritus Professor of Knowledge Based Development, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

• Contents:ForewordCompeting: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become ProsperousPeter FranzPrefaceIntroducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge CitiesTan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier CarrilloPART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge EconomyBjörn T. Asheim2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of DenmarkMark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology PrecinctsGülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban SpaceKirsten Martinus6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in GermanyStefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City TransformationOctavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América MartínezPART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant EcosystemCathy Garner and Anne Dornan9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge CitiesKostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of EindhovenAna María Fernández-Maldonado11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney Richard Hu12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small BusinessJoan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL UniversitiesJames A. Powell15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge RegionCaren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus WermkerPART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge EconomyKevin Johnson17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and PerspectivesFrancisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and BostonTan Yigitcanlar19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi ExerciseAlicia Leal and Blanca C. GarciaAfterwordConcluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge CitiesJoris van WezemaelIndex

Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Kostas Metaxiotis, University of Piraeus, Greece and Francisco Javier Carrillo, President, The World Capital Institute and Emeritus Professor of Knowledge Based Development, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

• Contents:ForewordCompeting: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become ProsperousPeter FranzPrefaceIntroducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge CitiesTan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier CarrilloPART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge EconomyBjörn T. Asheim2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of DenmarkMark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology PrecinctsGülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban SpaceKirsten Martinus6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in GermanyStefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City TransformationOctavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América MartínezPART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant EcosystemCathy Garner and Anne Dornan9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge CitiesKostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of EindhovenAna María Fernández-Maldonado11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney Richard Hu12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small BusinessJoan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL UniversitiesJames A. Powell15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge RegionCaren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus WermkerPART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge EconomyKevin Johnson17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and PerspectivesFrancisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and BostonTan Yigitcanlar19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi ExerciseAlicia Leal and Blanca C. GarciaAfterwordConcluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge CitiesJoris van WezemaelIndex

Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Kostas Metaxiotis, University of Piraeus, Greece and Francisco Javier Carrillo, President, The World Capital Institute and Emeritus Professor of Knowledge Based Development, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

• Contents:ForewordCompeting: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become ProsperousPeter FranzPrefaceIntroducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge CitiesTan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier CarrilloPART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge EconomyBjörn T. Asheim2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of DenmarkMark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology PrecinctsGülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban SpaceKirsten Martinus6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in GermanyStefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City TransformationOctavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América MartínezPART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant EcosystemCathy Garner and Anne Dornan9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge CitiesKostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of EindhovenAna María Fernández-Maldonado11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney Richard Hu12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small BusinessJoan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL UniversitiesJames A. Powell15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge RegionCaren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus WermkerPART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge EconomyKevin Johnson17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and PerspectivesFrancisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and BostonTan Yigitcanlar19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi ExerciseAlicia Leal and Blanca C. GarciaAfterwordConcluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge CitiesJoris van WezemaelIndex