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SCIENCE-BASED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PETER NIJKAMP PRESIDENT NWO
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A new spatial-economic landscape

• Death of distance
• - Network society
• - Trade and location
• - Advent of ICT
• - New economy
• Locality
• - Local filieres
• - Local-global divide
• - Agglomeration advantages
• - Network externalities

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The information age as a new economy

• ICT
• - Logistic efficiency
• - Eletronic cottages
• - Knowledge infrastructure
• - Economies of scale and scope
• Customized production
• - Cost decline
• - Logistic revolution
• - Global search markets
• - Global competition
• - Mass goods vs. exclusive goods

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Trends

• Reinforcement of urban regions- Larger cities-
  More large cities- Important urban regions-
  Metropolitan development
• Rural decay
• Modern nomadism 

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Contrasting perspectives

• TrendsettersBarbara Ward
• Jane Jacobs
• Economists Views
• Bill AlonsoEd Glaeser
• Network PerspectivesSaskia SassenRoberto
  CamagniManuel Castells

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Contrasting perspectives (2)

• Entrepeneurs visionRoger StoughZoltan Acs 
• Structuralist perspectiveAllen ScottMichael
  Storper

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Benefits and disbenefits of agglomeration

• Macro Vs Micro
• Disadvantages- Externalities- Let them pay?-
  Social fragmentation
• Advantages- ICT Centres- Knowledge basis-
  Innovation and incubation

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Facts and images of modern cities

• Siliconia syndrom
• Marketing concepts
• A triangular relationship- Economy- Society-
  Sustainability
• A complex Force Field International Competition
• Why butterflies dont leave

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Great examples of ICT

• Siliconia syndroom
• Silicon alps Karinthie
• Silicon beach Santa Barbara
• Silicon desert Phoenix
• Silicon glen Schotland
• Silicon polder Nederland

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Metaphors for the city of the future

• Knowledge-based city Cyberville
• 3-C city Invisible city
• Communications city Fantasy city
• Information city Intelligent city
• Electronic communities Telecity
• Informational city Teletopia
• Electronic space Virtual city
• Electronic cottage Smart city
• Flexicity Wired city
• Binary city Network city
• Sources Graham and Marvin (1996) Grosveld
  (2002)

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ICT, knowledge and knowledge incubation

• Infrastructure
• Local base
• Local learning mechanisms
• Knowledge-based activities
• Sustainability
• Clever stakeholders

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A complex policy portfolio

• Science/knowledge as integrating mechanism
• Two focal points for policy
• - People knowledge and education
• - Entrepeneurs innovation
• The region as the new platform for knowledge
  workers and entrepeneurs
• New institutional constellations