This work aims to be a first step in developing a comprehensive model of the varied set of problems and factors affecting the provision of services by external sources of knowledge and applying it to the relationships among Spanish technology institutes and their client firms. The model...

In recent years, public and private organisations have carried out international cooperation projects that contributed in a relevant way to the development of local systems in transition countries, thereby increasing the interests of scientific communities, project managers, and entrepreneurs...

The Chinese economic reforms which started in 1978 were not just one set of reforms, but a cumulative and overlapping set of reforms over a 30-year period which effectively embedded knowledge creation in the Coastal regions of China. This resulted from the interaction of four processes,...

Knowledge, research, and innovation are of crucial importance for the competitiveness of an economy and a recipe for economic development not only for developed and developing countries, but also for entities surviving a political abnormality, such as the Palestinian territories. As Palestinians...

The paper discusses the concept of “urban smartness” starting from the early results of the Periphèria Project. Periphèria is a 30-month pilot B action funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT PSP Programme and it aims at deploying convergent Future Internet platforms and...

In the late twentieth century, cities like Manchester, seen as the ‘original, modern’ [<CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1</CitationRef>] world industrial city, faced serious challenges in terms of how to respond to the massive economic restructuring that was taking place. On the one hand, Manchester needed to respond to the highest rates...</citationref>

Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the...

Technology and its transfer has become the main vehicle of human and economic development in the world today. This is especially true of discontinuous and disruptive technologies because of their special role in taking the economic activities and quality of life to new levels. The transferee’s...

The new planning paradigm of “intelligent cities” is replacing the principles of smart growth and new urbanism which have inspired urban planning over the past 20 years. The “Intelligent Thessaloniki” case study highlights how a city is adopting this new paradigm and how the deployment...

Through an interrogation of the nature and value of encounters with “difficulty” in Humanities Higher Education, this essay aims to articulate some of the ways in which Humanities education itself, even in its least canonical and least prestigious manifestations, is of value. Beginning with...