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What Doughnut Economics means for business
1 november 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationThe 21st century’s rapidly compounding crises – from climate and ecological breakdown to extreme social inequities of power and opportunity – make it irrefutably clear that the global economic ...
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Resource Orchestration and Opportunity Beliefs in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives for Sustainability
1 juli 2022 | CAREMOur world is increasingly faced with wicked environmental sustainability challenges, requiring entrepreneurs to work in multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) to address these challenges. Network orchestration is ...
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The reaction of coworking spaces to the COVID-19 pandemic. A dynamic capabilities perspective
1 juni 2022 | CAREMThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to many firms reassessing how to deal with their communities. In this study, we focus on a coworking space and examine how the management staff and its coworking community reacted to the ...
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City of Amsterdam Voluntary Local Review 2022
1 juni 2022 | CAREMAmsterdam presenteerde als eerste gemeente van Nederland een rapport over de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) van de Verenigde Naties. De SDG’s zijn 17 doelen die de lidstaten van de Verenigde Naties in ...
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Open for Business: Pathways to strengthen CGIAR's responsible engagement with the private sector
1 april 2022 | CAREMWe welcome the initiative of the Netherlands to highlight ideas to build on CGIAR’s successful engagement with the private sector. This special report brings a welcome new perspective to some of our past ...
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Appropriating Relational Value from Collaborative Networks for Sustainability
14 februari 2022 | CAREMOur study elucidates relational value creation and appropriation in collaborative networks for sustainability (CNfS), which focus on grand societal challenges and include a multiplicity and diversity of actors.
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Five hard questions and the need for capacity building
7 februari 2022 | CAREMTo help the cities realise their positive energy districts, the Atelier project includes a capacity building programme, in which professionals in the partner cities can learn from each other and experts how to make ...
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Capturing Urban Memory with Sentient Data, Counter Mapping and Digital Methods
1 januari 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationThis paper puts forward a conceptual proposition that ties the discourses on ‘urban memory’ (Stillman and Johanson, 2009; Ringas, Christopoulou, Stefanidakis., 2011; Loughran, Fine & Hunter, 2015), ...
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The campus as location for firms
1 januari 2022 | CAREMCampuses are increasingly positioning themselves as attractive locations for businesses. This research studies how this plays out in Amsterdam. We conclude that there is currently much fragmentation in efforts to ...
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Developing smart city solutions using the Innovation Partnership method: how does it work? Lessons from Växjö
14 december 2021 | CAREMThis article focuses on the innovation partnership (IP) model. This model opens new avenues for public bodies, including cities, to co-create solutions together with private companies or other innovators. It was ...
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Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation
1 december 2021 | CAREMWorldwide, there is a growing recognition that strategic partnering between cities and universities can bring substantial benefits for both sides. The big question is how to organize such partnerships successfully. ...
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Balancing exploration and exploitation in sustainable urban innovation
1 januari 2021 | CAREMThe potential of technological innovation to address urban sustainability has been widely acknowledged over the last decade. Across cities globally, local governments have engaged in partnership arrangements with the ...
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From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
1 januari 2021 | CAREMSustainability and economic growth—the integration and balance of social, environmental, and economic needs—is a salient concern for sustainable development and social well-being. By focusing on a ...
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Coworking spaces: places that stimulate social capital for entrepreneurs
1 januari 2021 | CAREMThis study examines how social networking facilitated by coworking spaces help entrepreneurs. Drawing on previous research in the different social science disciplines, a conceptual model is proposed that links ...
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Hoe Amsterdamse campussen zich positioneren als bedrijfslocaties
16 november 2020 | CAREMAmsterdam heeft verschillende campussen en innovatiegebieden. Van oudsher zijn dit vooral plekken voor kennisinstellingen, maar de laatste jaren zijn ze meer divers geworden. Veel campussen richten zich nu ook ...
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Urban Innovation Systems
15 oktober 2020 | CAREMIntroduction: There are good reasons to study urban innovation from a systemic perspective. A key finding in innovation research is that organizations rarely innovate in isolation, but in interaction with clients, ...
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It works! But now what? Upscaling smart city experiments
5 oktober 2020 | CAREMThe city as lab People and organizations everywhere are working to make the city more sustainable, more circular and climate-proof. Sustainable innovations are not for sale, we have to make them ourselves by ...
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Policy evaluation report
30 september 2020 | CAREMIn this policy evaluation report, the results of the first 2 years of the Interreg funded ABCitiEs project are presented. In total 16 entrepreneurship collectives have been studied in 5 partner regions, i.e. Athens, ...
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Adopting zero-waste indigo dyeing production
18 mei 2020 | CAREMDyStar is a multinational organization and world leader of dyestuffs and chemical manufacturing. As the world’s largest supplier of textile dyes, it offers a broad range of products and has increasingly ...
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Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence
1 februari 2020 | CAREMWe provide greater theoretical precision to the concept of productive opportunities of Penrose. We show firm emergence as a recursive cycle of changing productive opportunities. We show how those opportunities result ...
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Tech Scale-Ups in the Amsterdam City Region
1 januari 2020 | CAREMThis report analysis the geography of the tech sector in Amsterdam, with a focus on scaleups. After a literature review, it contains a quantitative analysis, showing and mapping the spatial clustering of various ...
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The promise of coworking environments: a content analysis of the positioning of collaborative workspaces in Amsterdam
1 januari 2020 | CAREMThe emergence of collaborative workspaces is a remarkable feature of contemporary cities. These spaces have appeared rapidly, catering for the locational needs of self-employed workers, start-ups and small-size ...
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Intermediation in public procurement of innovation: How Amsterdam’s startup-in-residence programme connects startups to urban challenges
1 november 2019 | CAREMThis paper analyses Amsterdam’s Startup-in-Residence (SiR) programme as new type of policy to engage startups in the development of urban innovation through a challenge-based public procurement of innovation ...
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Governance of urban collectives in Amsterdam
5 juni 2019 | CAREMAcross European cities local entrepreneurs are joining forces in new ways, forming collectives to stimulate business growth and innovation and to create a more attractive business environment. The value of such ...
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Co-creation at Amsterdam Science Park
1 mei 2019 | CAREMAmsterdam Science Park (ASP) is a pearl in the crown of the Amsterdam knowledge economy, with its high-level research institutes (the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam, several institutes of the NWO, ...
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An exploration of smart city approaches by international ICT firms
1 mei 2019 | CAREMAs part of the growing interest in cities to address persistent sustainability issues in society, ‘smart cities’ have increasingly become a ubiquitous phenomenon globally. For multinational enterprises ...
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Motivations and entrepreneurial orientation of sustainable entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurship archetypes in the fashion industry
1 januari 2019 | CAREMSustainable entrepreneurs need to balance social, environmental and economic goals. However, some put sustainable goals first whereas others prioritize economic outcomes. This suggests differences in types of ...
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From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
1 januari 2019 | CAREMSustainability and economic growth – the integration and balance of social, environmental and economic needs is a salient concern for sustainable development and social well-being. By focusing on a sustainable ...
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The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept
1 januari 2019 | CAREMUniversities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere. To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of ...
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Public Value Creation in a Smart City Context: An Analysis Framework
1 januari 2019 | CAREMLaunching smart city activities and projects requires political support. For sustainable approaches, a concrete strategy, and leadership endorsement from the municipal government is crucial. In accordance with the ...
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Boosting the entrepreneurial scene in cities: experiences and reflections from the InFocus network – a short communication
1 januari 2019 | CAREMThis short communication contains a reflection on local entrepreneurial ecosystems and how to boost them, in the context of smart specialisation strategies of cities and regions. It is based on a literature study and ...
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Universitäten sind die neuen wirtschaftlichen Antriebsmaschinen der Stadt
19 december 2018 | CAREMUniversitäten sind Magneten für Studenten, Doktoranden, Professoren – und große Unternehmen. Während einige Städte dadurch einen Wachstumsschub erleben, versuchen andere durch eine ...
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Polderen met kennis II
1 december 2018 | CAREMDe vele partijen, bewoners en problemen in Amsterdamsebuurten vragen om een passende aanpak voor de grootstedelijke vraagstukken die daar spelen. Vanuit die motivatie startte de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in 2016 met ...
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Final report
1 augustus 2018 | CAREMThis report contains an analysis of the AMP1’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. It aims to assess the external perceptions about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Metropolitan Area of Porto and the key variables ...
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The Role of Coopetition on Innovation, Value Creation and Value Capture
1 augustus 2018 | Centre for Economic TransformationCoopetition (simultaneous competition and collaboration between firms) is an important driver for innovation, as competing organizations benefit from pooling resources and ideas for new products, processes and ...
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Collaborative Research With Practitioners: Research Journeys & Methodological Innovations
1 augustus 2018 | Centre for Economic TransformationCollaborative research methods such as action research and engaged scholarship are seen as one way for research to impact practice. Scholars engaged in such research face several opportunities and challenges that ...
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The promise of coworking environments
1 juni 2018 | CAREMThe emergence of collaborative workspaces is a remarkable feature of contemporary cities. These spaces have appeared rapidly, catering for the locational needs of self-employed workers, start-ups, and small-size ...
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The societal interaction of higher education institutions
1 maart 2018 | CAREMThis paper explores knowledge-based urban development related to higher education and campuses. It also provides an introduction to design thinking, which has been used as a user-friendly tool for fulfilling the ...
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Can startups solve urban problems?
1 januari 2018 | CAREMCan city administrations benefit from the entrepreneurial spirit of startups, and create better urban solutions with their help? The paper Can startups solve urban problems? critically assesses the interplay between ...
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Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities
1 januari 2018 | CAREMThis title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling volume examines the critical success factors that determine the economic development of ...
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European Cities in the Knowledge Economy
1 januari 2018 | CAREMAcross Western Europe, the emphasis has shifted from physical manufacturing to the development of ideas, new products and creative processes. This has become known as the knowledge economy. While much has been ...
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E-Governance in European and South African Cities
1 januari 2018 | CAREMSince the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This ...
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Collaborating with competitors ... 5 tips to managing competition in multi-stakeholder collaborations
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Cities and digitalization
1 november 2017 | CAREMIn this short paper, we give an overview on how this major trend is unfolding and, specifically, how it affects cities. We take the following starting points: - Digitalization is a strong force that ...
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Sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem emergence and development
30 september 2017 | CAREMOur paper investigates the interaction of mechanisms that drive the emergence and development of a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem (SEE). We study a specific geographic context, the Amsterdam metropolitan ...
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Making waves
5 september 2017 | CAREMThis study takes a valuation perspective to study how and where products and innovations are gaining ‘economic significance’ in the contemporary economy.
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Smart city pilot projects
5 september 2017 | CAREMIn many cities, pilot projects are set up to test new technologies that help to address urban sustainability issues, improve the effectiveness of urban services, and enhance the quality of life of citizens. These ...
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Entrepreneurial orientation and its effect on sustainability decision tradeoffs
1 september 2017 | CAREMWe examined the entrepreneurial orientation and sustainability orientation, a persistent and conflicting duality, of sustainable entrepreneurs and their evaluation of competing priorities in sustainability decision ...
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A vivid portrait of a versatile Amsterdam Zuidoost
16 juni 2017 | CAREMDeveloping a research approach from Amsterdam Zuidoost.
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De economie van Zuidoost
4 april 2017 | CAREMWander Meulemans, docent en onderzoeker binnen fieldlab Zuidoost schrijft over zijn bevindingen tijdens het onderzoeksproject met focusgroepen
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Planned knowledge locations in cities
18 februari 2017 | CAREMThis paper puts forward a conceptual framework to analyse emergence and the development of planned knowledge locations in cities (science and technology parks, creative factories, knowledge hubs, etc.).
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Lab Amsterdam
1 januari 2017 | CAREMAmsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme ...
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Die Politur des Wissensperlen
1 januari 2017 | CAREMIn diesem ersten LOGbuch, das die Internationale Bauhausstellung IBA Heidelberg im vierten Jahr ihres Bestehens herausgibt, wird das ambitionierte Thema Wissen | schafft | Stadt ausgelotet und in seiner Relevanz fur ...
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The Campus
1 januari 2017 | CAREMDREAMS and SEEDS: The role of campuses in sustainable urban development
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Tussen de klusjesman en de universiteit
9 november 2016 | CAREMJe leert iets door het te doen, vindt Willem van Winden, lector Amsterdamse kenniseconomie aan de HvA. Of het nu gaat om doe-het-zelven met behulp van YouTube-filmpjes, om het bestuderen van steden of om het ...
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Meedoen in plaats van toekijken
9 november 2016 | CAREMWillem van Winden wil niet meer alleen afstandelijk, beschrijvend wetenschappelijk onderzoek doen. Zo is hij betrokken bij een verband tussen bedrijven om de denimindustrie duurzamer te maken
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Organising smart city projects
1 november 2016 | CAREMIn recent years, a large amount of smart city solutions has been started in Amsterdam that contribute to the quality of life in the city. However, many of these solutions or initiatives do not succeed. Getting smart ...
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Polishing knowledge pearls
1 juni 2016 | CAREMIn our knowledge-based society, prosperity derives from knowledge and innovation rather than from natural resources or a favourable geographic location.
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Growing fast or slow?
1 juni 2016 | CAREMThe paper explores the process of early growth of entrepreneurial science-based firms. Drawing on case studies of British and Dutch biopharmaceutical R&D firms, we conceptualize the speed of early growth of ...
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Urbanize or perish?
20 april 2016 | CAREMThis paper explores the drivers behind a recent “urban turn” of planned knowledge locations in Europe. While acknowledging a general tendency towards more urbanity, we argue that a dense and diverse urban ...
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When do acquirers invest in the R&D assets of acquired science-based firms in cross-border acquisitions?
1 april 2016 | CAREMDrawing on a multiple case study of acquisitions of UK biopharmaceutical firms, we develop an analytical framework that elucidates how key determinants of the knowledge base of science-based firms and their ...
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Entrepreneurial orientations and their impact on trade-off decisions in sustainability
8 februari 2016 | CAREMOur paper investigates the microfoundations of sustainable entrepreneurship and aims to shed light on trade-offs made in decisions about social, ecological and economic sustainability. Balancing the ...
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Smart city pilot projects, scaling up or fading out?
1 januari 2016 | CAREMIn many cities, pilot projects are set up to test or develop new technologies that improve sustainability, urban quality of life or urban services (often labelled as “smart city” projects). Typically, ...
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Collaborating with competitors to advance sustainability
1 januari 2016 | CAREMSustainability challenges are among the most complex and difficult problems facing businesses today. These challenges involve many actors and interests and overlapping concerns, and addressing them requires ...
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Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century
1 januari 2016 | CAREMIn recent years, cities such as Amsterdam have used the term hub city to define themselves in a global context. Hub cities are cities that play – or aspire to – a crucial role in the international and ...
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Campusmanagement
1 januari 2016 | CAREMCampussen zijn er in veel smaken. Eén ding hebben ze gemeen: ze worden neergezet als innovatieversnellers met een meerwaarde voor de aldaar gevestigde bedrijven en kennisinstellingen.
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Local-global knowledge sourcing in the context of an open innovation knowledge platform
1 januari 2016 | CAREMOur paper investigates the inherent tensions between the local embeddedness of highly tacit knowledge and the global sourcing of ‘open’ knowledge or innovation.
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Assess your competitor collaboration to advance sustainability
1 januari 2016 | CAREMIf your company is currently collaborating with competitors in order to advance sustainability, this tool will help you think about how to take that collaboration to the next level and achieve better results. If ...
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Coworking: an analysis of coworking strategies for interaction and innovation
1 januari 2016 | CAREMThis paper analyses how managed coworking spaces affect the innovation process of their members.
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Capturing the Imaginary: Students and Other Tribes in Amsterdam
18 november 2015 | CAREMDuring the last decades students have become a target group for cities like Amsterdam. They are addressed as the talented forces that cities need in order to face increasing global competitiveness, a force which ...
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Smaller university cities
30 oktober 2015 | CAREMIn the face of increasing globalisation, with the biggest cities reaping the greatest rewards, knowledge economy specialist Willem van Winden examines the future for smaller university cities.
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Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes:
14 juni 2015 | CAREMThe world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and ...
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Intermezzo II: Persoonlijke reflecties uit de praktijk rondom steden als living/urban labs en de samenwerking tussen kennisinstellingen, bedrijfsleven, stedelijk en nationaal bestuur
30 april 2015 | CAREMDit artikel is gepubliceerd in een themanummer van het tijdschrift Bestuurskunde. Dit nummer gaat over de stad als lab voor sociale verandering.
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New urban economies
20 april 2015 | CAREMHoe kunnen Europese steden hun economie ontwikkelen? Welke vernieuwende benaderingen zien we bij de voorlopers? En wat zijn de valkuilen? Deze en andere vragen staan centraal in een nieuwe publicatie van Willem van ...
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Food For Thought: Citizens As 'Part-Time' Entrepreneurs
1 april 2015 | CAREMIn a growing number of economic branches, citizens are becoming more active, as part-time producers, service providers, suppliers or even entrepreneurs. They compete with traditional companies, but often operate ...
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The Open Data Economy: promoting digital innovation in Dublin
1 april 2015 | CAREMThe case study on Dublin (Ireland) is one of the concrete results of the URBACT workstream ‘New urban economies’, after collection of data, a study visit, and interviews with local stakeholders.
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Economic Intelligence For Cities: Strategies And Pitfalls
1 april 2015 | CAREMWhy cities need economic intelligence. The economies of Europe’s cities are changing fast, and it is not easy to predict which segments of the local economy will grow and which ones will decline. Yet, cities ...
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Triple Helix (3H): Where Are Europe's Cities Standing?
1 april 2015 | CAREMWhat is the triple helix? The triple helix (3H) of university-industry-government relations has become one of the most popular innovation models in the last two decades. What is the relevance for cities? How can they ...
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Setting The Scene: Economic Transitions In European Cities
1 april 2015 | CAREMIn the recent ‘Regional outlook’, the OECD (2014) convincingly argues that cities can be the drivers of national growth and recovery: in principle, their diversity and density makes people and companies ...
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Health & Care: Drivers Of Urban Growth?
1 april 2015 | CAREMHere is something that all Europeans find of prime importance: affordable access to good health care; high quality elderly care; being able to live independently, even if you are handicapped or chronically ill.
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The Different Faces Of The Urban Digital Economy
1 april 2015 | CAREMWhat will a shopping street look like in 2025, when online shopping continues to show double-digit growth? And what will 3D printing do to factories and logistic companies, when we can ‘print’ more and ...
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'New urban economies': challenges ahead
1 april 2015 | CAREMEurope’s urban economies do not look the same as ten years ago. And in ten years from now,they will again be different. The digital revolution is particularly disruptive: entire sectors are being transformed, ...
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City & University: a sympony for progress
1 maart 2015 | CAREMHow can university and city administration co-create the city? Where do their interests meet and diverge, and what is needed to exploit synergies?
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New style cluster policy: riding the waves of San Sebastian's emerging surf economy
1 januari 2015 | CAREMThe case study on San Sebastian (Spain) is one of the concrete results of the URBACT workstream ‘New urban economies’, after collection of data,a study visit, and interviews with local stakeholders.
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Dam tot damloop
30 oktober 2014 | CAREMRuim 36.757 lopers (op de hoofdafstand!) en 115.000 bezoekers langs het parcours van het centrum van Amsterdam naar het centrum van Zaanstad, maakt de Dam tot damloop een groot evenement (het grootste hardloop ...
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CAPTURING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
30 september 2014 | CAREMEuropean cities are confronted with a rapidly changing economy. The crisis has destroyed jobs across both service and manufacturing industries, and has revealed the shakiness of the financial service sector. Jobs get ...
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Knowledge spaces and places: From the perspective of a “born-global” start-up in the field of urban technology
15 september 2014 | CAREMThe success of cities increasingly relies on its capacity to capitalize on its knowledge base, but also on its potential to anchor external knowledge and the strategies of knowledge-based firms.
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Urban Innovation Systems, what makes them tick?
1 september 2014Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations? What are the ingredients of success? Can innovative cities be ...
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Internationalization and the Dutch Fashion Industry
30 april 2014The overall topic of this book is internationalization. It is hard to deny that organizations are increasingly internationalizing in order to remain competitive, to access growth markets and resources and to reduce ...
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DUWO rapport huisvestingsbehoeften van internationale studenten
17 maart 2014 | CAREMDe kamer is voor de student weliswaar niet het hoofddoel van de buitenlandstudie, maar het vormt wel het middelpunt van het leven van de student en bepaalt daarmee sterk hoe de buitenlandse student terugkijkt op zijn ...
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Connecting cities building successes
1 januari 2014 | CAREMThis paper discusses how universities could explore and exploit the city as learning environment, a place full of interesting research questions, real-life problems waiting to be solved and challenges to be addressed.
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Regionalization Strategies of European Union Electric Utilities
1 januari 2014 | CAREMAs part of the debate about globalization and regionalization, this paper adds a perspective that has so far remained underexposed, that of (formerly state‐owned) firms in (previously) regulated industries, in ...
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De stad als klaslokaal en onderzoekslab - Ervaringen en dilemma’s
29 oktober 2013 | CAREMHoger-onderwijsinstellingen zien ‘de stad’ steeds meer als een interessante leer- en onderzoeksomgeving, vol met boeiende vragen en uitdagingen. Tegelijkertijd zijn stedelijke beleidsmakers en andere ...
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Stadtplanung für Innovationen? Trends und Dilemmata
29 oktober 2013 | CAREMDie Förderung innovativer Unternehmen ist zum heiligen Gral der kommuna-len Wirtschaftsförderer und Stadtplaner geworden. Aber wie lassen sich solche innovationsorientierte Ansätze gestalten? Dabei ...
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Delivering Sustainable Solutions:
15 oktober 2013Cities all over the world dedicate efforts to become more “sustainable”. New solutions are being developed and implemented to achieve these ambitions. Typically, these solutions are shaped in a complex ...
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Business Models for Sustainable Energy Development
30 april 2013 | CAREMBusiness-led approaches to accessing energy in development countries are becoming key factors to sustainable market development. Given the major challenges in this market, companies will blend commercial and ...
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Creating Hotspots for the Knowledge Economy
20 november 2012 | CAREMThe emerging knowledge economy alters the expectations for contemporary work environments. Everywhere, we see the development of campuses and other types of “knowledge hotspots”. In this article, the ...
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Multinational Knowledge Strategies, Policy and the Upgrading Process of Regions
31 augustus 2012 | CAREMThis paper revisits how and why new multinational knowledge-based strategies and multi-level governmental policies influence the upgrading process of regions in developing economies. Automotive multinationals ...
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A grand entrance? Li Ning's emergence as a global, Chinese brand
5 juli 2012 | CAREMLi Ning Co Ltd (Li Ning), a Chinese sport apparel, footwear, and equipment company founded in 1989 by the Olympic gymnastics gold medallist, grew from a family business into China's number one sporting goods brand in ...
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Amsterdamse Kansenzones
8 mei 2012 | CAREMIn maart 2010 begonnen we aan het onderzoek ‘Amsterdamse Kansenzones’, in opdracht van Economische Zaken Amsterdam. Een “kansenzone” is een gebied in een achterstandswijk waar ondernemerschap ...
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Cluster management for cities: why and how?
18 maart 2012This report contains a reference framework for cluster managers, as well as a number of current “best practices” in European cities. It concludes with an in-depth description of cluster management ...
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Creating Knowledge Locations:
21 februari 2012Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries ...
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Institutional entrepreneurship in constructing alternative paths
2 februari 2012 | CAREMThis paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated biotechnology firms ...
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Creating Knowledge Locations in the city: A handbook
13 oktober 2011 | CAREMThis book focuses on one particular way to promote the urban knowledge economy: the creation of knowledge ‘hotspots’.
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Leegstand van Kantoren in Amsterdam: Wie Betaalt de Rekening?
7 oktober 2011 | CAREM“Te Huur: Kantoorruimte”. Langs snelwegen en op vele andere plekken schreeuwen de billboards u tegemoet. De leegstand van kantoren groeit, en wordt steeds meer zichtbaar. Is dat erg? Wie lijdt er pijn, ...
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Amsterdam Kennisstad in Internationaal Perspectief
1 september 2011 | CAREMGezien het politieke en economische belang van innovatie voor de regio Amsterdam is het belangrijk om beter zicht te krijgen op het innovatieve vermogen van de Amsterdamse regio. Dit rapport wil hier een bijdrage aan ...
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Cross-border Acquisitions of Science-based Firms
4 juli 2011 | CAREMThis paper asks what happens to the technological resources and assets of host country science-based firms when they are acquired by foreign firms. Drawing on a multiple case study research design and interviews with ...
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Wederzijds Profijt in Amsterdam ZuidOost?
30 maart 2011 | CAREMAmsterdam Zuidoost vormt geen eenheid. Het spoor splijt het gebied in delen die ogenschijnlijk een eigen leven leiden. Aan de ene kant woonwijken en winkelcentra en aan de andere kant entertainment, retail, kantoren ...
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What role for manufacturing industries in the urban knowledge economy?
9 januari 2011 | CAREMThe share of manufacturing in urban economies has declined. But is this a problem? And will the decline continue? And how does manufacturing fit in the new ‘knowledge economy’?
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Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy
31 augustus 2010 | CAREMIn large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost ...
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Urban Hotspot 2.0
1 juli 2010Cities all over Europe are developing ‘knowledge hotspots’: physical concentrations of knowledge-intensive or creative activity. They come in many disguises: science parks, technology parks, creative ...
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Kennis van de stad
10 februari 2010Lectorale rede van Willem van Winden
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Knowledge and the European City
1 januari 2010 | CAREMThis paper discusses and illustrates the ‘knowledge turn’ in urban policy across Europe. We identify four manifestations of it: 1) widespread efforts to lure knowledge workers; 2) a growing involvement of ...
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European Cities in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Observations and Policy Challenges
30 januari 2009 | CAREMThis essay discusses a set of related issues concerning the urban transition towards a knowledge-based economy. First, it deals with the uneven distribution of economic growth among various types of cities in the ...
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European cities in the knowledge economy: towards a typology
1 maart 2007The shift towards a knowledge-based economy seems to favour some well-endowed urban areas. However, not all cities benefit equally. This paper discusses the shift towards a knowledge-based economy in different types ...
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Globalisation and Urban Competitiveness
17 november 2006This paper addresses the relation between urban development, national growth and globalisation. This paper suggests that globalisation and the shift towards a knowledge-based economy have a major impact on urban ...
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E-governance in European and South African Cities
1 juli 2006By comparing eight cities - Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Johnnesburg, Manchester, Tampere, The Hague and Venice - this book examines a range of innovative urban e-governance strategies and develops a framework of ...
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The development of ICT clusters in European cities
1 maart 2004The information and communication technology (ICT) sector is at the centre of interest to cities. In the 1990s, many of them invested heavily in developing and attracting this promising sector. Almost every city has ...
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Urban Broadband Internet Policies in Europe: A critical Review
1 januari 2004In this paper, urban broadband policies are critically reviewed. Cities and regions in Europe play an increasingly active role in the provision of broadband electronic infrastructure. We present a typology of ...
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E-governance in cities: A comparison of urban ICT policies
30 januari 2003Throughout Europe, urban information and communication technology (ICT) policies are becoming more significant. Using examples from various cities, this paper describes and analyses the local manifestation and ...
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Should cities help their citizens to adopt ICTs?
5 juni 2002In this paper we argue that large cities can benefit from higher levels of adoption of ICT (information and communication technology) among the population. We develop an analytical framework permitting the analysis, ...
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The end of social exclusion?
18 augustus 2001Social exclusion of parts of the urban population has come to be seen as one of the key roots of many contemporary urban problems. Currently, a new optimism can be observed about the possibilities of fighting social ...
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Growth clusters in European cities: an integral approach
1 januari 2001This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of clusters in nine urban regions in Europe. The cluster perspective in the studying of growth processes in cities has added value because, increasingly, economic ...