Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks

This book is about intelligent clusters, cities, regions and their role in the globalization of innovation networks. It tells why intelligent environments are important today; and how we can create such environments. Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual / intelligent environments. It explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation; opens up a new way for making intelligent environments via the connection of human skills, institutional mechanisms, and digital spaces operating within a community; and describes a series of platforms and tools for the making of intelligent cities.