Urban Innovation Networks: Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource

By Alexander Gutzmer

Book Overview

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen - and used - as a resource for corporate innovation. The main argument is that companies have to build what the author calls "urban innovation networks." After a theory-based outline of such networks, the author demonstrates the extent to which different institutional players - companies such as Audi, Ikea and Siemens, but also arts institutions like the Haus der Kunst in Munich - are already working to create them. The book combines management thinking with urban theory and the sociology of networks to create a unique blend of different views of capitalism and space, offering a new perspective on both the modern metropolis and globally operating companies active within our distinctly urban culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331937074X
• ISBN13: 9783319370743
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"