Different types of knowledge differentiated by the level of explicitness: tacit, talked, written.
A 2500 years old chinese textbook says: "Writing could not fully describe what people want to say".
Knowledge City Definition: A city that is purposefully designed to encourage the nurturing of knowledge.
"Organizations and people are knowledge nodes".
Three interrelated processes are necessary in a knowledge city: local knowledge creation, transfer of knowledge from external source, transfer of that knowledge into productive activities.
Dalin is a coastal city in the northeast part of china, chinese government worked out a strategy on developing indigenous innovation ("Innovative Dalin").
Advantages of Dalin: High density of knowledge (23 universities and colleges), communication and transportation network, 3.16 million fixed and 5.11 million mobile phone users, rational industrial structure, commercial and financial center of china, high quality of life ("International Garden City").
Dalin is the "Summer Davos" to host the World Economic Forum.
"The process of developing a knowledge city is neither quick nor simple".
The intellectual resource is the most valuable: "We need I-Shaped, T-shaped and TT-shaped people".
Strategic Mind on Building Xi'an as a Knowledge City
Speaker: Wang Yingluo
Strategic planning programs made by the Worldbank in 1998, European Commission in 2000 and OECD.
"Move from copy to indigeneus innovation".
Xi'an advantages: 5000 years of history, geographic center of china, highly developed transportation infrastructure, high-quality living environment, appropriate city scale.
A social development system has been developed based on the full development of human and harmony between human, nature and economy.
Diversified Culture: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
"Xi'an as a world belief center" (Comment: this is a good idea because like Platon said "Knowledge is justified true belief").
Identifying key elements in Knowledge-Cities Benchmarking
Elements of a MindZone: Living, Entertainment, Diversity, Creativity, History, Meetingplace, Tolerance, Life quality, Activity, Shared space, Business, Greenery, Entrepreneurship.
Cultivate Urban Capital: Human, Relational, Social and Structural Capital.
Cooperation between urban management, vision- and valuebased urban capital development
Core - Vision - Values - Principles and Tools, Structural/Strategic.
Focusing on the culture of Helsingborg: creating a centre for creativity and renewal in Öresund (Promote entrepreneurship, de-industrialization, renewal in education and innovation)
Strategy for knowledge cities: develoing the human and relational capital of the city, focusing on the interplay between education, business and public sector and a toolbox for urban development and attractive cityscapes.
Reasearch on Knowledge System of Knowledge Cities
Speaker: Ji Huisheng, Shi Jing
A short history of Knowledge Cities
The concept of knowledge cities emerged in Europe and the US in th 1990s.
In 2002 the report SGS Economics reffered to the concept of a Knowledge City.
