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Intelligence & Lund Master Thesis Autumn 2003 Intelligence & Lund - What lessons Lund can learn in order to become an intelligent city. Author: Tutor: Dragana Radovanović Leif Edvinsson Dragana Radovanović Intelligence & Lund Abstract Title: Intelligence & Lund - What lessons Lund can learn in order to become an intelligent city Author: Dragana Radovanović Advisor: Leif Edvinsson Course: Master thesis in business administration, 10 Swedish Credits (15 ECTS) Date: 2004-01-23 Key words: Lund, Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Intelligent City, Knowledge City, Creative City, Municipal Intelligence, Intellectual Capital Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to identify factors associated with the Ragusa’s survival persistence and subject awareness, in order to highlight what the city of Lund may learn from this intelligent city. These factors are recognized as sustainability factors because they indicate the capacity for wellbeing in the long-term future. Furthermore, the purpose is to enlighten what may be components and characteristics of an ‘intelligent city’. Method: The thesis exploratory research is conducted from research of literature and from interviews with experts in the subject. Case study research strategy is used as the most appropriate method for this thesis. Conclusions: One of the main lessons from the case study is necessity of the organised municipal intelligence for the city adaptability and development. The city of Lund needs to increase its networking potential in order to create meeting places and milieus that its citizens will experience as creative and to nourish intellectual capital of the city. Furthermore, recommends nourishment of the community spirit and integration of Lund’s networks by identifying diverse role-players. As intelligent city, Lund should have its projection in the virtual world in order to stay connected with its citizens and to integrate the scattered arenas of the city with a universal interface. An intelligent city needs to know how big stock of its most important resource, the intellectual capital, is. Mapping of intellectual capital enables a city leadership to make better resource allocation decisions and facilitate its management. 2 Dragana Radovanović Intelligence & Lund Acknowledgements I take this opportunity to thank Professor Leif Edvinsson for great help and guidance throughout the thesis. Without his helpful suggestions and provided material and contacts, this thesis would not be finish. Furthermore, I would like to thank all those professionals who granted me part of their precious time to answer on my questions and shared their knowledge and insights with me. Thank you! __________________________ Dragana Radovanović [email protected] 3 Dragana Radovanović Intelligence & Lund Contents TABLES OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................6 1 INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................................7 1.1 BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 PURPOSE........................................................................................................................................................ 8 1.3 DISPOSITION.................................................................................................................................................. 9 2 METHOD ..........................................................................................................................................................11 2.1 RESEARCH DESIGN ...................................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 HERMENEUTIC SPIRAL OF THE STUDY.......................................................................................................... 14 2.4 DATA COLLECTION...................................................................................................................................... 16 2.5 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY ........................................................................................................................ 16 2.6 INTENDED AUDIENCE................................................................................................................................... 17 3 THE CONTEMPORARY AND EVOLVING SOCIETY .............................................................................18 3.1 THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND THE INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY ............................................................... 18 3.2 INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................... 21 3.3 INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF CITIES AND REGIONS........................................................................................ 25 3.3.1 The pioneers in IC mapping of cities and regions .............................................................................. 27 3.3.2 Models applied ................................................................................................................................... 31 3.4 INTELLIGENCE FOR CITY DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................................... 38 3.5 SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE ............................................................................................................................. 41 4 QUEST FOR INTELLIGENT CITIES ..........................................................................................................45 4.1 KNOWLEDGE CITY....................................................................................................................................... 45 4.2 CREATIVE CITY ........................................................................................................................................... 48 4.3 INTELLIGENT CITY....................................................................................................................................... 51 5 WHAT WAS RAGUSA?..................................................................................................................................56 5.1 RAGUSA’S SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS ......................................................................................................... 59 5.1.1 Organised Intelligence and Security (I&S)......................................................................................... 59 5.1.2 Political stamina and government engagement.................................................................................. 60 5.1.3 The spirit of Ragusa............................................................................................................................ 61 5.1.4 Diversity ............................................................................................................................................. 61 5.1.5 Rich cultural life and its diversity....................................................................................................... 62 5.1.6 Scientific environment and knowledge tradition................................................................................. 62 5.1.7 Favourable geographical position and infrastructure for transport and communication.................. 63 6 CITY OF LUND................................................................................................................................................64 6.1 LUND’S SUSTAINABILITY ATTRACTORS ....................................................................................................... 64 6.2 LUND’S INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER ISSUES.................................................................................................. 66 7 ANALYSE AND EVOLUTION OF RESULTS.............................................................................................69 7.1 LESSONS LEARNED FROM RAGUSA.............................................................................................................. 69 7.2 TOWARDS A NEW DEFINITION OF AN INTELLIGENT CITY ............................................................................. 73 7.3 LUND IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY ............................................................................................................... 76 8 CONCLUSIONS ...............................................................................................................................................78 4 Dragana Radovanović Intelligence & Lund 8.1 FUTURE RESEARCH...................................................................................................................................... 79 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY.............................................................................................................................................80 PUBLISHED SOURCES......................................................................................................................................... 80 VERBAL SOURCES ............................................................................................................................................. 83 OTHER SOURCES ..............................................................................................................................................
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