Rising Northern Light

2010 ◽  
pp. 296-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca C. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
City Region ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Integrative System ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Manchester City ◽  
Systems View ◽  
The City

One of the difficulties in creating and sustaining knowledge cities is the lack of benchmarks to identify those cities and regions that are generating knowledge-driven initiatives, triggering development and collective value. One of such benchmarks is the value-based Generic Capital System (GCS) taxonomy. The rigorous application of GCS to cities in European contexts has already yielded its initial fruits, with Manchester as one of the cities in which a deeper perspective can be gained through the GCS lens. In this chapter, the author aims to introduce GCS as an integrative system of capitals for the case of the Greater Manchester city-region and its journey into developing its knowledge capitals. Through the lens of the GCS generic KC capital system taxonomy, some of Manchester’s systems of information, systems of learning and systems of knowledge are expected to emerge as a comprehensive meta system articulated by the extensive life-long learning initiatives implemented by Manchester’s development-based Knowledge-City schemes. The GCS lens will be introduced within the different system layers interacting in the city in order to discover how they tie the City’s learning, communicating and knowledge-sharing dynamics together in the emerging context of knowledge-based development initiatives. The chapter will attempt to highlight how ICT connectivity systems (managing information) could be viewed as closely linked to skill development (managing learning) and people’s management of tacit and explicit knowledge (knowing), with visible regional aspirations for development. Such systems view aims to cover a wider (although still limited) range of the instrumental, human and meta capitals observable in the city in a simultaneously rich mosaic of different layers. The city’s traditional and knowledge-intensive hubs, its communications and infrastructure, its identity, traditions and cultural diversity within the Greater Manchester city-region could therefore exemplify the consistent building of a system of capitals in a demanding knowledge-intensive context.

Territory and Power in England: The Political Economy of Manchester and Beyond

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Moran ◽  
John Tomaney ◽  
Karel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Political ◽  
City Region ◽  
Central State ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Manchester City ◽  
The City

Bulpitt’s conception of a ‘dual polity’ is updated in this chapter to make sense of modern changes in central–local relations, notably the spate of ‘devolution’ deals, including for the Greater Manchester city region. ‘Devo Manc’ is the product of a deal between symbiotically entwined elites in Whitehall and Manchester City Council, both dominated by systems of ‘coterie politics’. But this attempt to recreate a new, settled duality is riddled with contradictions and is therefore chronically unstable. The problems arise from the different ambitions of key groups: the economic interests that have captured the process of economic change in the city; the institutional interests that divide key actors within the Manchester system; and the strategic interests of a central state that is desperate to offload the painful decisions created by austerity politics.

scholarly journals Connected growth: Developing a framework to drive inclusive growth across a city-region

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 565-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beel ◽  
Martin Jones ◽  
Ian Rees Jones ◽  
Warren Escadale
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Region Scale ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Manchester City ◽  
The City

This ‘in perspective’ piece addresses the (re-)positioning of civil society within new structures of city-region governance within Greater Manchester. This follows on from the processes of devolution, which have given the Greater Manchester City-Region a number of new powers. UK devolution, to date, has been largely focused upon engendering agglomerated economic growth at the city-region scale. Within Greater Manchester City-Region, devolution for economic development has sat alongside the devolution of health and social care (unlike any other city-region in the UK) as well. Based on stakeholder mapping and semi-structured interviews with key actors operating across the Greater Manchester City-Region, the paper illustrates how this has created a number of significant tensions and opportunities for civil society actors, as they have sought to contest a shifting governance framework. The paper, therefore, calls for future research to carefully consider how civil society groups are grappling with devolution; both contesting and responding to devolution. This is timely given the shifting policy and political discourse towards the need to deliver more socially inclusive city-regions.

Singapurs Weg in die Wissensökonomie

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kiese
Keyword(s):  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Innovation Surveys ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

Singapore’s road to a knowledge-based economy. The role of knowledge-intensive business services in the national system of innovation. In 1998, Singapore’s government announced its vision to transform the city state into a knowledge-based economy (KBE) through a gradual shift from value adding to value creation. As both users and producers of knowledge, knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are commonly seen as a cornerstone of the KBE. After assessing the development, size and structure of Singapore’s KIBS sector, we use data from innovation surveys of manufacturing and KIBS firms to assess the latter’s dual role as innovators and bridges for innovation. Our results allow us to point out policy recommendations and sketch possible avenues for further research.

TAXONOMY OF HRM POLICIES OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRMS: A RESOURCE-BASED EXPLANATION

1999 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 379-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOO-HOON LEE
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
The Core ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Requirements ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Core Capabilities

This paper argues that as firms compete in an increasingly knowledge-intensive environment in the 21st century, they will need to structure their HR processes and practices to support their internal knowledge assets. Using a resource-based view of the firm, this paper categorises HR policies into a framework that is based on the knowledge requirements and dimensions of the core capabilities of the firm. This framework explains how outsourcing, training and development, teambuilding, and research and development initiatives are mapped for different firms that have different knowledge, skills and ability, as well as tacit and explicit knowledge requirements.

Back to the City Region? The Future of Strategic Transport Planning in Scotland

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 128-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Docherty ◽  
David Begg
Keyword(s):  
City Region ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

City-region governance in transitional contexts: the case of the BRICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Philip Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
City Region ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Abstract The bulk of the scholarly literature on city-regions and their governance is drawn from contexts where economic and political systems have been stable over an extended period. However, many parts of the world, including all countries in the BRICS, have experienced far-reaching national transformations in the recent past in economic and/or political systems. The national transitions are complex, with a mix of continuity and rupture, while their translation into the scale of the city-region is often indirect. But, these transitions have been significant for the city-region, providing a period of opportunity and institutional fluidity. Studies of the BRICS show that outcomes of transitions are varied but that there are junctures of productive comparison including the ways in which the nature of the transitions create new path dependencies, and way in which interests across territorial scales soon consolidate, producing new rigidities in city-region governance.

scholarly journals The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Palmyra Repette ◽  
Jamile Sabatini-Marques ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Denilson Sell ◽  
Eduardo Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societies to seek ways for their cities to become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, and sustainable. In recent years, the concept of City-as-a-Platform was coined with the hope of providing an innovative approach for addressing the aforementioned disruptions. Today, this concept is rapidly gaining popularity, as more and more platform thinking applications become available to the city context—so-called platform urbanism. These platforms used for identifying and addressing various urbanization problems with the assistance of open data, participatory innovation opportunity, and collective knowledge. With these developments in mind, this study aims to tackle the question of “How can platform urbanism support local governance efforts in the development of smarter cities?” Through an integrative review of journal articles published during the last decade, the evolution of City-as-a-Platform was analyzed. The findings revealed the prospects and constraints for the realization of transformative and disruptive impacts on the government and society through the platform urbanism, along with disclosing the opportunities and challenges for smarter urban development governance with collective knowledge through platform urbanism.

scholarly journals Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097265
Author(s):  
Matthew Thompson ◽  
Alan Southern ◽  
Helen Heap
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economies ◽  
The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Liuqing Yang ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Fulong Wu ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Wei Sun
Keyword(s):  
City Region ◽  
The City
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