This book is about the environment of innovation that is formed within cities and regions. However, it approaches the subject via a substitution. The central premise is that (a) a theory of innovation is not feasible, since its prevision capacity would annihilate innovation itself, and (b) the quest for a theory of innovation can be replaced by the quest for understanding the environment for generating innovation. The substitution consequently lies in the assumption that we cannot predict the emergence of innovation and consequently manage it, but we can create environments within which innovation is generated; in other words that we can manage the environment rather than innovation itself. The more radical and disruptive innovation is, the more this substitution is necessary. This is the central idea behind Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks. The objective is about innovation, but the means which permit us to reach it are intelligent cities and other forms of intelligent environments sustaining the processes of innovation, which are now global.
Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks
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This book is about the environment of innovation that is formed within cities and regions. However, it approaches the subject via a substitution. The central premise is that (a) a theory of innovation is not feasible, since its prevision capacity would annihilate innovation itself, and (b) the quest for a theory of innovation can be replaced by the quest for understanding the environment for generating innovation. The substitution consequently lies in the assumption that we cannot predict the emergence of innovation and consequently manage it, but we can create environments within which innovation is generated; in other words that we can manage the environment rather than innovation itself. The more radical and disruptive innovation is, the more this substitution is necessary. This is the central idea behind Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks. The objective is about innovation, but the means which permit us to reach it are intelligent cities and other forms of intelligent environments sustaining the processes of innovation, which are now global.
This book is about the environment of innovation that is formed within cities and regions. However, it approaches the subject via a substitution. The central premise is that (a) a theory of innovation is not feasible, since its prevision capacity would annihilate innovation itself, and (b) the quest for a theory of innovation can be replaced by the quest for understanding the environment for generating innovation. The substitution consequently lies in the assumption that we cannot predict the emergence of innovation and consequently manage it, but we can create environments within which innovation is generated; in other words that we can manage the environment rather than innovation itself. The more radical and disruptive innovation is, the more this substitution is necessary. This is the central idea behind Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks. The objective is about innovation, but the means which permit us to reach it are intelligent cities and other forms of intelligent environments sustaining the processes of innovation, which are now global.