Contents:ForewordCompeting: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become ProsperousPeter FranzPrefaceIntroducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge CitiesTan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier CarrilloPART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge EconomyBjörn T. Asheim2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of DenmarkMark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology PrecinctsGülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoglu4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? Glen Searle and Kevin O'Connor5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban SpaceKirsten Martinus6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in GermanyStefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski7.
Participating: Knowledge Citizens' Competences and Knowledge City TransformationOctavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América MartínezPART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant EcosystemCathy Garner and Anne Dornan9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge CitiesKostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of EindhovenAna María Fernández-Maldonado11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney Richard Hu12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small BusinessJoan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn14.
Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL UniversitiesJames A. Powell15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge RegionCaren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus WermkerPART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne's Knowledge EconomyKevin Johnson17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and PerspectivesFrancisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and BostonTan Yigitcanlar19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi ExerciseAlicia Leal and Blanca C.
GarciaAfterwordConcluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge CitiesJoris van WezemaelIndex.