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Delft blues: the long road from university town to knowledge city

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  • Arie Romein
  • Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado
  • Jan Jacob Trip

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Besides their teaching and research tasks, universities are increasingly expected to valorise knowledge into innovation. This involves new products, but also transdisciplinary knowledge exchange with people, technologies, firms and markets. This relates to knowledge-based urban development through a variety of locally-specific variables and features. This paper discusses the role of knowledge capacity in the development of the Dutch City of Delft. It emphasises the role of Delft University of Technology as a main player of Delft's knowledge capacity, the qualities of the local production and consumption milieus and the role of local knowledge city policy. It explores the role and impact of knowledge capacity in urban development in a setting with mixed advantageous and disadvantageous qualities. The results suggest that the reason for the disappointing employment creation in Delft may be found particularly in the triple helix cooperation between government, knowledge institutions and industry.

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  • Arie Romein & Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado & Jan Jacob Trip, 2011. "Delft blues: the long road from university town to knowledge city," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(2), pages 148-165.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:2:y:2011:i:2:p:148-165
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    1. Pancholi, Surabhi & Yigitcanlar, Tan & Guaralda, Mirko & Mayere, Severine & Caldwell, Glenda Amayo & Medland, Richard, 2020. "University and innovation district symbiosis in the context of placemaking: Insights from Australian cities," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    2. Tan Yigitcanlar & Ingi Runar Edvardsson & Hjalti Johannesson & Md Kamruzzaman & Giuseppe Ioppolo & Surabhi Pancholi, 2017. "Knowledge-based development dynamics in less favoured regions: insights from Australian and Icelandic university towns," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(12), pages 2272-2292, December.
    3. Francesc Xavier Grau, 2016. "A short communication on glocal universities," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1), pages 63-74.

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