Knowledge in Cities

Abstract

This study identifies clusters of US and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups—ranging from ‘Making regions’, characterised by knowledge about manufacturing, to ‘Thinking regions’, noted for knowledge about the arts, humanities, IT and commerce—can be used by analysts and policy-makers for the purposes of regional benchmarking or comparing the types of programme and infrastructure available to support closely related economic activities. In addition, these knowledge-based clusters help to explain the types of region that have levels of economic development that exceed, or fall short of, other places with similar amounts of college attainment. Regression results show that ‘Engineering’, ‘Building’, ‘Enterprising’ and ‘Making’ regions are associated with higher levels of productivity and/or income per capita; while ‘Teaching’, ‘Understanding’, ‘Working’ and ‘Comforting’ regions have lower levels of economic development.

Dubaization of Istanbul: Insights from the Knowledge-Based Urban Development Journey of an Emerging Local Economy

“…Literature on KBUD indicates that becoming a prosperous knowledge city requires perspectives in addition to those of KBUD: capitalizing on socioeconomic aspects of the development; also, investing in space/place and organizational excellence (Carrillo et al, 2014;Gabe et al, 2012). In the present study, we adopt the KBUD conceptual framework as an overall guide in undertaking quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate Istanbul's KBUD.…”

“…Economic development: Istanbul has achieved a thriving economic performance by seeing city as the economy, but performance is only commodity-based products and mainly depends on internal consumption. As Gabe et al (2012) state, seeing 'knowledge' as the economy is a more appropriate approach for Istanbul. Even if some achievements have been recorded in the IT, defense, and finance sectors, in knowledge economy activities the city performs poorly: Turkey ranks 69th globally and last in Europe in innovation.…”

“…Pressures and new developments in the knowledge economy era (Cooke and Leydersdoff, 2006) have prompted cities to focus on their competitive strategies (Gabe et al, 2012). This has brought a new perspective to urban planning and development (Van Winden, 2010), and knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) has become a popular policy for cities aiming to increase their competitive edge (Huggins, 2010), upgrade infrastructures (Bulu, 2013), and improve quality of life (Yigitcanlar et al, 2008).…”

Exploring the Impact of Complex Multi-Level Governance Structures on the Societal Contribution of Universities to Knowledge-Based Urban Development

“…In today's rapidly globalizing world, 'knowledge', along with the social, technological, and economic settings, is seen as today's economy (Yigitcanlar et al 2007;Gabe et al 2012). The process of transforming cities into knowledge cities is influenced by universities that help cities to embed their knowledge into sustainable development.…”

Knowledge base differentiation in urban systems of innovation and entrepreneurship

“…Based on the choices under each question, the importance of a particular type of knowledge for each occupation has a score on a scale of 1–5, and the level on a scale of 0–7. To obtain one single value for one knowledge type of each occupation, we use the product between the importance score and the level score, following Feser (2003) and Gabe et al (2012). Next, we calculate the weighted average of a knowledge type as an indicator of an MSA’s score on this knowledge, using the share of an occupation’s employment in the MSA as the weight.…”