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Innovative Cities & Regions

Planning for Smart Cities and Smart Regions

A one-day conference is going to be held tomorrow (May 4) on Planning for Smart Cities and Smart Regions of the Future. The conference is a free event and it is being held at the Engineering Building (pictured here) of NUI Galway Continue reading…

Top 10 U.S. Cities for IT Jobs with Tech Startups

Economists with salary data provider PayScale compiled a list of the 10 best cities in the U.S. for finding high-paying IT jobs with tech startups. They looked at the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. and determined the number of startup IT jobs available per capita in each location. Continue reading…

Smart Thailand underway

The south-east Asian country has embarked on an ambitious “Smart Thailand” project in order to increase its competitiveness on a regional as well as on a global level, and make ICT progress easier. The project is part of a national ICT framework called “ICT2020″, a development blueprint affecting all parts of the economy, especially the government sector. The project consists of two main parts: a “smart network” project Continue reading…

Michael Bloomberg on Innovative Cities

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says cities need to innovate just as much as corporations—and offers prescriptions for how to do it. In an article in McKinsey&Co “What Matters” magazine, he mentions three key approaches that have helped him to get around challenges to drive innovation forward: Continue reading…

Most Innovative Cities 2011

The Australian consulting firm  2thinknow has released its annual list of the most innovative cities in the world. It is the world’s largest city classification and ranking with 331 benchmark cities classified, and top 125 cities ranked in 2011. Continue reading…

Peripheral Hubs for Global Business

To commemorate C. K. Prahalad’s work, strategy+business published an article that was in progress at the time of his death in April 2010. C.K. Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits Continue reading…

Centers, Cities, Clusters Report

The report, “Centers, Cities, Clusters: Encouraging Innovation Through Sustainable Urban Design,” published by American Planning Association, focuses on sustainable economic development through case studies from Barcelona, Boston and Curitiba highlighting innovative strategies for economic development in urban cores. Continue reading…

Skolkovo a powerful high-tech hub in Russia

Skolkovo is to become an innovation hub that will stimulate innovative entrepreneurship and disseminate entrepreneurial culture across the country to integrate Russia into the global economy: Continue reading…

Manchester’s innovation ecosystem

INNOPOLIS, an  INTERREG IVC project, has organised a study visit and workshop meeting in Manchester between 16th and 20thof May 2011. The scope of the study visit has been to understand the technology transfer that is taking place in Manchester innovation ecosystem and the practices of cooperation between enterprises and academia in University Cities. Continue reading…

Location Attractiveness for International Innovation

This OECD report analyses the current trends in international investment in innovation and the attractiveness policies already implemented. The book also explores the role of investment incentives that governments tend to give to international investors: their rationale, their impact and their usefulness. Continue reading…