Creative Knowledge

Cities
Myths, Visions and Realities

Edited by

Marina van Geenhuizen

Professor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in the
Urban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft,
the Netherlands

Peter Nijkamp
Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics,
Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

NEW HORIZONS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE

Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA

Contents
List of contributors
Preface

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1 Creative cities in a knowledge society: introduction

Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp
PART I

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CRITICAL VIEWS ON POLICIES AND POLICY

TOOLS

2 Theory and practice of the creative city thesis: experiences

from Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Arie Romein and Jan Jacob Trip
3 The sustainability of knowledge-related policies in technologybased cities in the Netherlands
Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado and Arie Romein
4 Two critical notes on the meaning of the new middle class for
creative knowledge city policies
Marco van der Land
5 Developing knowledge cities: towards aligning urban and
campus strategies
Alexandra den Heijer, Jackie de Vries and Hans de Jonge
6 Science parks: changing roles and changing approaches in
their evaluation
Marina van Geenhuizen, Danny P. Soetanto and '
Victor Scholten
7 The academic entrepreneur: myth' or reality for increased
regional growth in Europe?
Katalin Erdos andAttila Varga
8 From exit to excellence: turning old industry regions into
knowledge regions through triple helix processes
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith

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Creative knowledge cities

PART II KEY CONDITIONS: HUMAN CAPITAL,

NETWORKS AND 'SOFT' FACTORS
9 A map of human capital in European cities
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Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo and Peter Nijkamp
10 Social capital's and absorptive capacities' impact on new
ventures' growth
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Danny P. Soetanto, Mozhdeh Taheri and
Marina van Geenhuizen
11 Innovation networks in a cross-border context: the case of
Vienna
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Michaela Trippl
12 Spatial, network-based and regional proximity in US
biotechnology
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Der-Shiuan Lee and Breanddn O h Uallachdin
13 ^Interlocking firm networks in the German knowledge
economy: the case of the emerging mega-city region of Munich 333
Alain Thierstein and Stefan Lu'thi
14 Knowledge exchange in trans-national city networks:
evolutionary mechanisms in cross-local learning among
European cities
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Martin de Jong and Jurian Edelenbos
PART III

CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE CITIES IN

EMERGING ECONOMIES

15 Location patterns of advanced producer services firms: the

case of Sao Paulo
Roberto Rocco
16 Knowledge spillovers through informal contacts in urban
production systems: the case of ICT firms in Campinas, Brazil
Renato Garcia and Veneziano Araujo
17 Making Shanghai a creative city: exploring the creative cluster
strategy from a Chinese perspective
Yawei Chen
Index

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