PICTURE

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PICTURE

• Promoting Innovative Clusters Through Urban
  REgeneration

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PICTURE - Objective (1)

• promote the development of cluster of innovative
  firms operating inside the industrial district of
  Prato by supporting the process of strategic
  planning developped by the local City Council

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PICTURE - Context

• Industrial district with problems in
  competitivness and innovation
• A process of strategic planning that wants to
  manage the transformation toward the knowledge
  economy

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PICTURE - Objective (2)

• The experience will lead to the drafting of
  guidelines directed to the European cities
  interested in the question of strengthening the
  business clusters in urban structure in
  transition towards structures based on the
  knowledge economy.

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PICTURE - Activities

• a elaboration of the methodological
  framework
• b context analysis
• c elaboration of long-term scenarios
• d elaboration of a project proposal
• Share (intermediate and final results) with
  locael stakeholders

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PICTURE - Problematic ambits

• physical transformation of the city
• promotion of innovative clusters within the
  production process
• social policies
• logistics

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PICTURE

• Start date september 14th 2006
• End date october 31st 2007

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PICTURE - Partners

• I.R.I.S. - Istituto Ricerche e Interventi Sociali
• DSE - Università di Firenze
• The University of Birmingham
• DSPS - Università di Firenze
• Consorzio Trasformazioni Urbane - URBAN SpA