Creative KnowledgeCitiesMyths, Visions and Realities

Edited byMarina van GeenhuizenProfessor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in theUrban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft,the Netherlands

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

NEW HORIZONS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE

Edward ElgarCheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA

ContentsList of contributors viiPreface ;__ ix

1 Creative cities in a knowledge society: introduction 1Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp

PART I CRITICAL VIEWS ON POLICIES AND POLICYTOOLS

2 Theory and practice of the creative city thesis: experiencesfrom Amsterdam and Rotterdam 23Arie Romein and Jan Jacob Trip

3 The sustainability of knowledge-related policies in technology-based cities in the Netherlands 53Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado and Arie Romein

4 Two critical notes on the meaning of the new middle class forcreative knowledge city policies 84Marco van der Land

5 Developing knowledge cities: towards aligning urban andcampus strategies 104Alexandra den Heijer, Jackie de Vries and Hans de Jonge

6 Science parks: changing roles and changing approaches intheir evaluation 132Marina van Geenhuizen, Danny P. Soetanto and 'Victor Scholten

7 The academic entrepreneur: myth' or reality for increasedregional growth in Europe? 157Katalin Erdos andAttila Varga

8 From exit to excellence: turning old industry regions intoknowledge regions through triple helix processes 182Martina Fromhold-Eisebith

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PART II KEY CONDITIONS: HUMAN CAPITAL,NETWORKS AND 'SOFT' FACTORS

9 A map of human capital in European cities 213Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo and Peter Nijkamp

10 Social capital's and absorptive capacities' impact on newventures' growth 251Danny P. Soetanto, Mozhdeh Taheri andMarina van Geenhuizen

11 Innovation networks in a cross-border context: the case ofVienna 273Michaela Trippl

12 Spatial, network-based and regional proximity in USbiotechnology 303Der-Shiuan Lee and Breanddn O h Uallachdin

13 ^Interlocking firm networks in the German knowledgeeconomy: the case of the emerging mega-city region of Munich 333Alain Thierstein and Stefan Lu'thi

14 Knowledge exchange in trans-national city networks:evolutionary mechanisms in cross-local learning amongEuropean cities 364Martin de Jong and Jurian Edelenbos

PART III CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE CITIES INEMERGING ECONOMIES

15 Location patterns of advanced producer services firms: thecase of Sao Paulo 385Roberto Rocco

16 Knowledge spillovers through informal contacts in urbanproduction systems: the case of ICT firms in Campinas, Brazil 413Renato Garcia and Veneziano Araujo

17 Making Shanghai a creative city: exploring the creative clusterstrategy from a Chinese perspective 437Yawei Chen

Index 465