Geographies of Disruption Place Making for Innovation in the Age of
This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them. ‘Geographies of Disruption’ aims to fill that gap by exploring the growing importance of place making for knowledge generation and innovat
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ographies of Disruption Place Making for Innovation in the Age of Knowledge Economy
Geographies of Disruption
Tan Yigitcanlar Tommi Inkinen •
Geographies of Disruption Place Making for Innovation in the Age of Knowledge Economy
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Tan Yigitcanlar Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Tommi Inkinen Centre for Maritime Studies, Brahea Centre University of Turku Turku, Finland
ISBN 978-3-030-03206-7 ISBN 978-3-030-03207-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03207-4
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Foreword
Any analysis of the geography of innovation across the globe tends to find an inherent spatial unevenness in the distribution of inputs, outputs and outcomes, especially with regard to innovation that can be depicted as disruptive and radically market changing. Such unevenness is particularly pronounced when examining urban innovation geographies. While some cities act as powerful engines and motors of innovation, many others lag and are marked by an embedded and ingrained culture, infrastructure and industrial structure that works against the generation of the forms of innovation communities that propel knowledge-based economic development. In this highly comprehensive volume, Tan Yigitcanlar and Tommi Inkinen examine the geography on innovation from both a theoretical and practical perspective. They clearly show that the unevenness of development across cities stems from their ability to organise the flow of knowledge that underpins successful, an
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