Urban Innovation Networks Understanding the City as a Strategic Reso
This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a reso
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Urban Innovation Networks
Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource
Urban Innovation Networks
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Alexander Gutzmer
Urban Innovation Networks Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource
Alexander Gutzmer Department of Corporate Communications Quadriga University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-24622-2 ISBN 978-3-319-24624-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24624-6
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Foreword: Out of the Valley – Into the City
While these days, more and more European managers and journalists are travelling to the Silicon Valley with the aim to get insights into future innovation, entrepreneurs from the Valley are looking elsewhere: US Venture Firms are investing in Seoul’s Gangnam district in order to tap into what they perceive as one of the global hotbeds of urban innovation, where you stream online videos during your commute and pick-up mobile ordered groceries at your metro station before reaching home. Google is investing in Seoul, too, besides establishing its Sidewalk labs in New York City with the aim to explore urban innovations for reducing emissions, improving transportation and reducing the costs of city living. Wasn’t the internet meant to bring the death of distance? Wouldn’t the World Wide Web liberate us from the tyranny of location, help us to start projects on the beach and get them done in peace on a remote farm in a romantic landscape? Technically, all this has become true to some extent. But economically, the earth has not flattened. The rise of the internet strengthens the impact of network economics: Network effects render goods, services and assets more valuable with every additiona
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