The Rise of the Skilled City

Posted at 4 August 2005 in Innovative Cities & Regions

A paper from Edward L. Glaeser and Albert Saiz

The authors claim that ‘For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality.

Intelligent Cities 2005

Posted at 4 August 2005 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Top intelligent cities and regions for 2005, selected by the Intelligent Community Forum for their achievements in the field of innovation and broadband infrastructure development present a variety of profiles and trajectories:

Italian Industrial Districts

Posted at 27 July 2005 in Innovation Clusters

92 industrial districts appear on the portal of the Italian Industrial Districts Club. They are found in many traditional industry sectors: food, paper, plastics, rubber, mechanics, jewellery, leather, shoes, furniture, textiles, and clothing. The profile of each district outlines among others its specialisation, number of companies and employees, and sales turnover.

Business Intelligence

Posted at 27 July 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

Business Intelligence (BI) offers a series of tools and techniques for data analysis, trends description, and evaluation. BI complement more traditional intelligence techniques, such as foresight, benchmarking, and assessment. BI technologies attempt to help companies

Future Technologies

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: A technical, political and institutional map of emerging technologies

‘Future Technologies’ presents how Greenpeace is thinking about emerging technologies.

Oslo Manual

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Innovation Measurement

The Oslo Manual is an initiative of OECD, the European Commission and Eurostat focusing on the measurement of innovation. It has two objectives: to provide a framework within which existing surveys in OECD countries can evolve towards comparability; and to assist newcomers to this important field.

Innovation and Learning in Dynamic City-Regions

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Innovative Cities & Regions

The Second International Conference on the Process of Innovation and Learning in Dynamic City-Regions was held in Bangalore, India, 13-15 July 2005. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, a booming city, centre of the IT industry and usually referred as the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India.