Cities as Innovation Hubs
Cities as Innovation Hubs
Saturday, 14 February 2015: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Room LL21B (San Jose Convention Center)
This paper discusses cities as innovation hubs, emphasizing the interplay between information flows, structural features and scaling in determining the patterns of innovation across a number of different urban environments. It introduces a modeling framework based on properties of complex systems and takes advantage of the growing availability of empirical data worldwide to develop quantitative and predictive models of innovation dynamics. The paper also discusses the epistemological issues associated with this type of research.