Sustainability and Cities as Systems of Innovation

Björn Johnson and Martin Lehmann

No 06-17, DRUID Working Papers from DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: Cities often constitute relevant environments for interactive learning and innovation potentially capable of tackling sustainability problems. In this paper we ask if the concept of systems of innovation can increase our understanding of city dynamics and help promoting the sustainable development of cities. Through a combination of the innovation system approach and the perspective of creative cities, we argue that a slightly modified concept – sustainable city systems of innovation – may be helpful in this context. To underline this, we discuss certain ‘city-traits’ of sustainability and conclude that the new concept may be of special use for urban quality development and management.

Keywords: Sustainability; innovation systems; creative city; urban quality; sustainable city systems of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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