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Innovacities: in search of breakthrough innovations producing world-class performance

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  • Carlos Scheel

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Several studies have identified the key competitive factors of knowledge and creative cities. They have elaborated specific metrics and indicators to be able to provide a comparative assessment of innovation performance in cities, regions and nations. However, few of these studies have analysed the specific reasons why some cities have made a tremendous transition in a specific period of time using a systemic perspective. Through the analysis of a small group of renowned cities, this study examines and identifies the inflection points where the cities made great transformations in terms of world-class performance, and identifies the enabling mechanisms that made the transitions possible, that produced large-scale changes and that created interdependent spaces in which the citizens, the social communities, the businesses and their local natural environments, have become articulated into a harmonious and balanced regional development.

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  • Carlos Scheel, 2011. "Innovacities: in search of breakthrough innovations producing world-class performance," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(4), pages 372-388.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:372-388
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    1. Carlos Scheel, 2014. "Colombia and Mexico: innovation and entrepreneurship as a new paradigm for regional development in Latin America," Chapters, in: Jerome S. Engel (ed.), Global Clusters of Innovation, chapter 11, pages 271-295, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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