More and more innovative technologies and business plans are formed at interfaces of highly divergent disciplines as a result of an increasing demand for specialized solutions combining different sectors and competence fields. This market driven evolution requires new cross-connections between regional industry clusters that had no, or only a few connections before. But especially in […]
Content of the article is an evaluation of the first results and observations in the framework of the EU-funded innovation project TRAILS. TRAILS is a new training and service format that offers innovation trainings on a mobile basis in rural regions. These are covered in rapid time by demographic change. Rural areas in the narrower […]
The global trend of urbanisation affects countrysides across Europe more and more. Many regions suffer from fast shrinking towns as a result of economic emigration. So far, governments encounter this development with only a few measurements. One option is strengthening the innovative capabilities in local SMEs and supporting creative business ideas of young talents to […]
Rapid urbanisation requires cities to develop adaptive strategies, new programmes, and long-term visions. Concepts for urban futures need to outline operations that are sustainable in economic, social, environmental terms. The paper therefore presents a systematic description of cities by way of ‘Urban Business Models’ (UBM). As a method for the systematic creation of innovative city […]
The German Future City competition seeks new procedures to enable engagement of the broader citizenship within urban vision-making processes. To support Dresden´s ‘Open City’ project within the competition, we have created a visual tool and method set that supports the collection of ideas from the citizenship, and their qualification into visionary concepts. For all stages […]
Purpose – In the last decade increasing amounts of innovative technologies and business plans have been formed at the interfaces of highly divergent disciplines that had no, or only a few connections before. In contrast, over the years established incubator structures in industry clusters have supported entrepreneurs mainly in one specific field. Thus, there is […]
Purpose – The aim of the current study was to identify and analyse success factors of knowledge transfer in innovation processes of regional industry clusters that increase organizations´ and, in turn, clusters´ resilience. Design & Methodology – The research process consists of three parts: literature review looking at success factors for inter-organizational knowledge transfer in […]