URENIO Watch: Intelligent cities – smart cities – innovation ecosystems

Innovation Clusters

InnoSee and Open Innovation

The InnoSee project aims to development of key competences of research-driven clusters (RDC) and e-learning modules for RDC managers training. Partners include IPS (Institute for Postgraduate Studies at the UNWE, coordinator), ITPIO (Institute Continue reading…

How to Make a Region Innovative

To foster economic growth, innovation clusters need to draw on the power of an interrelated “quad” of sectors: public, private, civil, and academic, according to an article published in the latest issue of strategy+business magazine by Ernest J. Wilson III. Continue reading…

East London Tech City Map

The London Tech City Map, developed by Trampoline Systems and Playgen, analyses the technological ecosystem in East London by aggregating social network feeds for up to 10,000 people. The prototype includes 80 businesses and already generates analysis on the relative influence of each one and link them by the similarity of their interests. 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…

Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Technology Sourcing from Silicon ValleyHBS professor William R. Kerr and doctoral candidate Scott Duke Kominers develop a theoretical model for analyzing the forces that drive agglomeration, or industrial clustering. The model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Continue reading…

Clustering and City Competitiveness

cluster_smallIn a time when Europe must be restructured economically after the recession, clustering presents an ideal way to ensure local economic development and the EU’s future competitiveness, based on integrated, robust foundations that raise productivity and the implementation of innovation, according to “Clustering and City Competitiveness – an introduction” guide. Continue reading…

USA Innovation Clusters

US Innovation ClustersThe report “The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters” by Jonathan Sallet, Ed Paisley and Justin R. Masterman focus on the importance of President Barack Obama’s call for a new federal effort to support regional innovation clusters.

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Building an innovation nation

McKinsey has partnered with the World Economic Forum to create an “Innovation Heat Map,” by identifying factors that are common to successful innovation hubs. As part of this effort, they have examined the evolution of hundreds of such clusters around the world and analyzed over 700 variables, Continue reading…

Global Clusters Programme

Global Clusters is a unique and most advanced business development program in Finland. It is specifically designed for high tech companies targeting critical mass of customers and global market presence. Continue reading…

Innovation Clusters in Europe

Following the adoption of policies to promote the transnational dimension of clusters in Europe, the Commission published two surveys on statistical analysis and overview of cluster development and policy support in the EU. Continue reading…