Knowledge Based Development

Public space influence on knowledge sharing acquisition has become an interesting issue among knowledge management, urban landscaper, and knowledge based development researchers. Thus, this study aim to investigate the contributing influences of the degree of public space usages on tacit knowledge sharing. Cyberjaya Malaysia was considered as the study area having been adjudged as a high technology park that foothold in knowledge sharing for its knowledge based development. A total of 384 survey questionnaires were administered by the residents of the study area in various public spaces within the city to collate the respondent’s perception on their degree of public space utilization in relation to tacit knowledge sharing behaviour. Validated variables were adapted to measure knowledge sharing while the frequencies of public space utilization were measure with the user’s degree of visits to public spaces. Data collated were analysed with statistical packages for social science “SPSS...

The smart and sustainable cities concept has become a globally hot topic during the last few decades, particularly following the catastrophic impacts of global climate change. The assessment of smart and sustainable cities, however, is a major challenge due to complex, complicated, and chaotic nature of our cities. This makes the available monitoring and evaluation tools difficult to adopt and apply in different urban contexts to support urban planning and governance and foster evidence-based policymaking. In order to address this issue, the paper brings together knowledge-based development concept with smart and sustainable cities. Knowledge-based development is a vision of development that considers knowledge as the central structuring element of a development strategy. Similarly, its more territory focused version, knowledge-based urban development is an integrated approach for the transition of cities and regions into sustainable, liveable and prosperous localities. The methodological approach of the paper includes the review of the literature on existing approaches on smart and sustainable cities assessment, describing their main aspects, strengths and limitations, and discuss the potential contribution of a knowledge-based urban development strategy for the successful promotion of smart and sustainable cities, presented in a proposed conceptual framework.

Abstraet This paper presents an intervention model for local policy makers to link Science, Technology and Jndustry in lagging regions. By integrating several analytical tools from social network analysis, complexity approach and benchmarking, a multilevel complex network is suggested. The key inflection points can be displayed easily, facilitating decision-making related with this problem.

Business clusters are often intended to provide the environment needed to stimulate the financial growth of corporate inhabitants. However, many fail, prompting scholars to strive to identify the relevant success factors. In this paper, we identify factors promoting the growth of high-technology firms using a longitudinal dataset for both on-and off-cluster firms in Mjärdevi Science Park (MSP) at Linköping, Sweden. A panel data approach was used to investigate factors influencing the growth of on-cluster firms using off-cluster firms as a control group. Size and age influence turnover, as does the ability to innovate, but whereas size and age have a quadratic (nonlinear) impact on financial growth, innovation capabilities have a positive linear impact. Employment is mainly correlated to age, previous years' innovation and shareholder investment. Innovation output, (the ratio of patents asset value to turnover) is correlated to networking measured as social expenditure, which in turn exhibits a positive influence on innovation capabilities.

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Abstraet This paper presents an intervention model for local policy makers to link Science, Technology and Jndustry in lagging regions. By integrating several analytical tools from social network analysis, complexity approach and benchmarking, a multilevel complex network is suggested. The key inflection points can be displayed easily, facilitating decision-making related with this problem.