scholarly journals Knowledge-based innovation and the city: The case of Belgrade

Spatium ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Ivanovic-Vojvodic ◽  
Aleksandra Stupar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Global Network ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
New Type ◽  
Spatial Formations

The critical role of research in overall progress generates a pressing need to study the relationship between a city and knowledge-based innovation. A number of socio-economic and political processes influence the development of contemporary cities by defining the beneficial balance between financial ambitions, environmental awareness and sustainability. Consequently, the role of innovation and knowledge has been emphasized as one of the crucial generators of urban success. The most recent initiatives originating from universities and research establishments stimulate the emergence of new spatial formations and digital upgrading, thus setting up a fertile environment for intellectual exchange and the production and diffusion of knowledge and innovations. This article questions the historical, social and technological implications of research on urban space. The focus is set on the case of Belgrade and the newly proposed project of a university campus with its evaluation based on the latest concepts related to the economy of knowledge. This new type of knowledge-based innovation node is intended to serve as a driver of Belgrade?s inclusion into the global network of innovative cities. However, this initiative is still in the domain of paper-architecture due to financial limitations and a change in development priorities by the new government.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF INFLUENCE OF INTANGIBLE FACTORS ON ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL CHANGE OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (154) ◽  
pp. 204-210
Author(s):  
М. Kosmii
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Material Component ◽  
New Type ◽  
The City

At the present stage of development of territorial communities, the problem of their unification, including the change of administrative boundaries, has become a serious problem. The policy of dividing these boundaries is reflected in the perspective plan for the development of territorial communities, in particular relying on the material component without taking into account the intangible factor. This is quite clearly seen at the stage of formation of new ATGs and those conflict situations that arise in their formation. Administrative-territorial changes, although a manifestation of legal regulation, are a combination of material and intangible factors in the development of spatial systems. The material component manifests itself in the clear regulation of the boundaries, principles and methods of organization of united communities, as well as their powers in the urban sphere. Intangible (dominant) is manifested in the fact that members of the community have the right to determine the vector and specificity of development of the spatial structure of the city or settlement. The analysis of the law on decentralization shows that the lawmakers also put the intangible in its basis: the continuity of the territory of the ОTG; taking into account historical, natural, ethnic, cultural and other factors; the impossibility of reducing the quality and publicity of all services provided before the creation of the community The peculiarity of the transformation of the administrative-territorial structure and the process of forming the ОTG is that the center, as a rule, becomes the most developed settlement, including the city. Lastly, in this regard, it has high prospects for the development of an urbanized area, but this is possible only after overcoming a number of contradictions. It is possible to solve the latter by taking into account intangible factors, in particular property relations, which in the process of joining the city of the surrounding territories, offset the established principles of ownership and people's view of the surrounding space. Our surveys and their results prove that the agglomeration territory and the process of its formation are a consequence of socio-political processes, and the elements of the natural environment, form a new type of urban space, when the newly annexed territories are considered as recreation areas and satisfy the aesthetic and landscape preferences of residents. The latter are an intangible manifestation and, at the same time, a modern trend in the development of urbanized areas, where landscape and environmental issues are recognized as key needs of residents. In accordance with these needs, a transport network is formed and urban space is zoned. A new type of socio-economic, labor, cultural, and recreational ties is emerging. Keywords: intangible factors, spatial structure, urban system, city, united territorial communities, change of settlements.

Water and modernization styles: measuring territorial knowledge based on water management policies in Santiago de Querétaro (Mexico)

Water Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1473-1489
Author(s):  
Aníbal Mesa ◽  
Hugo Luna-Soria ◽  
José Luis Castilla
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Management Alternatives

This paper explores the relation that the inhabitants of an urban space, in this case the city of Querétaro, Mexico, establish with the water supply system. In particular, it seeks to understand the way in which the supply-side policies are configuring the relation that subjects keep with the territory around them. For this purpose, four variables (educational level, land value, housing legal status and development goals) are crossed with the existing knowledge about the water supply system, paying special attention to the differences among different city areas. The final goal is to understand how water modernization policies are affecting the links between subjects and territories. The results express that in the areas where those policies are more deeply consolidated, the links with territory are weaker, generating weakness in the ability to articulate management alternatives. Another weakness lies in the ability to create a much more active role of the subjects in their relation with water and its management as a basic resource.

Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in a sanctioned economy – does the CEO play a role?

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Cannavale ◽  
Iman Zohoorian Nadali ◽  
Anna Esempio
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Self Transcendence

PurposeEntrepreneurship, in many low-resilient economies, plays a critical role in overcoming external shocks. Thus, it is crucial in such situation that entrepreneurial firms can survive and even grow so that the whole economy can benefit from a higher level of resilience. The purpose of this study is to understand how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) brings about firms' performance through the moderating role of CEOs' self-transcendence values in the context of a low-resilient sanctioned economy.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative research that employs hierarchical regression analysis of a sample of 114 Iranian entrepreneurial firms composed of 62 knowledge-based and 52 creative firms.FindingsThe analysis revealed that in the low-resilient sanctioned economy, Iran, EO-performance link is moderated by the level of CEOs' self-transcendence value, that is, higher level of CEO self-transcendence leads to stronger impact of EO on performance. This moderation is not different in creative sector vs. knowledge-based sector of the economy.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a major gap in the traditional EO-performance relationship which is related to the role of CEO values. Also, the context of Iran's low level of economic resilience adds more novelty to this study, emphasizing on the role of CEO personal values of self-transcendence in times of crisis. The results could also be generalized in many economies now facing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis during which CEOs' self-transcendence values are vitally important in overcoming the difficulties of doing business in such situation.

scholarly journals Nooindustrial production: a step towards non-economic development

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.D. Bodrunov ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Core Components ◽  
New Type ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Public Production ◽  
The Individual

Considers the role of core components, i. e. individual, society and production, in the development of twenty-first century economy; the influence of intense market competition on humans as bio(zoo)beings; and the need to abandon the zootrend in civilizational development and pursue a different path targeting the creation of a new type of wants, values, and incentives -and, ultimatley, the new Individual. The author describes the transition from postindustrialism to knowledge-based NIS.2 followed by progress towards nooproduction and noonomy. Bodrunov analyzes public production as a system under the noonomy and emphasizes that nooproduction will focus on the production of the Individual per se. Cultural progress will underlie shifts in the structure of noowants.

scholarly journals The Explosive Potential of Artistic Activism: Factors – Functions – Response

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Jovovic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Shed Light

This article considers the change in artistic means in the digital globalised world and the development of art actionism as a new inter-genre. The author provides an overview and comparison of the key actions of protest events in Russia, also focusing on some South Slavic practices. Additionally, the article analyses incentive impulses, ways of realisation, and the social response to the most impressive art actions. The correlation of the aesthetic and utilitarian component of events is the main goal of the research, as well as the assessment of their political potential. The paper uses cultural, semiotic, and interdisciplinary methods trying to clarify the phenomenon of protest culture, the role of urban space in it, and the development of protest techniques. The author mainly refers to electronic resources containing materials of the most prominent art activists. The methodological basis of the study is research on the culture of protest by А. Epstein, A. Etkind, A. Rosenholm, Irina Savkina, and others. The programmes of art group leaders help shed light on the topic. There are two basic directions of subversive actions of art actionism within Slavic cultures: emancipatory and traditional. The author concludes that their character correlates with the official ideological policy of the state and focuses on the promotion of the artist’s opinion. The dynamism of protest practices is characterised by intermediality and liminality, and their reliance on popular culture makes the path from the sender to a wide audience the shortest. As a result of the analysis of the connection with traditional left revolutionary and artistic practices, it is concluded that art activism intensively uses the memory of the greatest revolutionary events as an artistic decoration and an ideological means of encouraging subversion. The indissolubility of the life and art of art activists gives rise to a new type of artistic creation of one’s own life in the history of Russian culture. The ideological goals of the analysed direction contribute to democratic changes and the conquest of human freedoms.

scholarly journals Trust and its Impersonal Nature

2011 ◽  
pp. 1683-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miia Kosonen ◽  
Kirsimarja Blomqvist ◽  
Riikka Ellonen
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Network Economy ◽  
Knowledge Based

In the knowledge-based network economy, trust is becoming an increasingly important issue. Both economists (Arrow, 1974) and sociologists (Luhmann, 1979) have pointed at the role of trust as a lubricant in managing uncertainty, complexity, and related risks. Trust reduces transaction costs, and increases spontaneous sociability (see Creed & Miles, 1996; Kramer, 1999). Trust can also have a critical role in enhancing knowledge creation and transfer within the organizational context (Kogut & Zander, 1992; Grant, 1996). Trust is an intriguing and paradoxical issue: in the modern society we need trust more than ever, yet we have less natural opportunities for trust to evolve (Lahno, 2002; Blomqvist, 2005).

Paving the Way to Neoliberalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Grinberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Labor Institutions ◽  
The Right

The chapter adopts a historical and sociological perspective and institutional political economy to explain the inability of the Zionist labor movement to adapt to democratic conditions following Israeli sovereignty. In the 1970s and early 1980s the Histadrut (peak association of labor) and large private employers formed a distributional coalition against the state which eroded its autonomy and contributed to economic crisis. When the strong and stagnant labor institutions became a political burden on Labor Party leaders, they initiated the dismantling of the Histadrut economy and welfare state, including privatization of enterprises and pension funds, and the nationalization of health services. The chapter highlights the critical role of domestic political processes for explaining neo-liberalization of the economy and the rebuilding of state autonomy in Israel, and explains the irony that politicians on the Left played a more decisive role than those on the Right.

scholarly journals Russia's response to new types of threats of the XXI century

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16025
Author(s):  
Tatyana Bespalova ◽  
Maxim Bakhtin ◽  
Elena Sviridkina ◽  
Vladimir Lepekhin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
World Community ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
New Type ◽  
Different Content

The need to form a new political philosophy is associated with modern challenges and threats that require large-scale ordering of the world of chaos and absurdity, an adequate response to the era of "post-truth" in order to preserve the national identity of peoples, cultures, civilizations, as well as the essential features of the person himself. The instability of international relations caused by the collapse of the bipolar world has given rise to the need to create a more stable polycentric world. Countering terrorism led to the formation of anti-terrorist coalitions at the international level and for a certain time brought the world community together in the fight against a common threat. However, no one expected that the new type of war would become another test for the development of a common strategy of counteraction by mankind, requiring a rethinking of the role of man in modern political processes. Schmitt's "friend-foe" confrontation may acquire a different content in the 21st century, when man himself becomes his own enemy, since the products of his military-political and scientific activities endanger the life of all mankind. Russia's response to new political threats can be the development of a new value role of man in the emerging world order, which is possible on condition of world recognition of the civilizational originality of the Russian historical path, building a dialogue of civilizations, as well as the implementation of three ideologies in the new political dimension - patriotism, socialism, environmentalism.

scholarly journals The Meaning and Path of Reconstruction of Cultural Value in Rural Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (S1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Hanwen Bao ◽  
Maosen Li
Keyword(s):  
Rural Schools ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
New Type ◽  
Urbanization Development

In the process of new-type urbanization development, the gradual discard and ignorance of rural cultural characteristics within rural education eventually led to the loss of cultural value of rural schools. Meanwhile, rural schools play the critical role of carrying out the cultural transmission and innovative development, therefore, the reconstruction of the school value also contributing to the realization of cultural value, including the aspects such as the rejuvenation of social education function, the cultivation of cultural perceivers, and the inheritance of outstanding culture. On the basis of rationality carefully examined the meaning of rural school cultural value, it is suggested to revoke the consciousness of rural school culture, enhancing the sense of belonging of rural teachers, and the construction of rural-school cultural community, so as to promote the reconstruction of rural school cultural value.

scholarly journals Commentary: The Need for a Deeper Exploration and Conceptual Understanding: The Critical Role of Creativity and Collaboration in Real-World Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Keith Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Real World ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Rote Learning ◽  
Collaborative Creativity ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Real World Learning

In this interview, author and professor R. Keith Sawyer describes the importance of and interconnections among creativity, collaboration, and the science of learning. He explains that the older paradigm of schooling from 50 years ago where rote learning was predominant is no longer relevant in a knowledge-based society. We now have to prepare students for jobs that require adaptability, flexibility, and creativity. He endorses an approach to education that fosters a deeper conceptual understanding, especially through collaborative creativity. He maintains that true innovation usually comes from a collaboration of individuals rather than a single, brilliant insight. Finally, he comments on recent findings in cognitive neuroscience.

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