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From Network Builders to Knowledge Clusters: A Value-Based Transborder-Region

From Network Builders to Knowledge Clusters: A Value-Based Transborder-Region

Blanca C. Garcia
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522526599|ISBN10: 1522526595|EISBN13: 9781522526605
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2659-9.ch003
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Garcia, Blanca C. "From Network Builders to Knowledge Clusters: A Value-Based Transborder-Region." Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions, edited by Umar Benna and Indo Benna, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 44-65. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2659-9.ch003

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Garcia, B. C. (2018). From Network Builders to Knowledge Clusters: A Value-Based Transborder-Region. In U. Benna & I. Benna (Eds.), Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions (pp. 44-65). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2659-9.ch003

Chicago

Garcia, Blanca C. "From Network Builders to Knowledge Clusters: A Value-Based Transborder-Region." In Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions, edited by Umar Benna and Indo Benna, 44-65. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2659-9.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter aims to explore the central notions of the Knowledge-City paradigm in which complex cluster concepts provide a perspective of the interdependencies between the many and diverse dimensions of urban value-based categories that co-exist in the northern city-region of Monterrey, Mexico, in the Mexico-Texas Borderland. The chapter succeeds to advance and further contribute to the development of the knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) paradigm by showing a hierarchical framework of knowledge units from the individual Urban Citizen-Entrepreneur to Cluster Partnerships from a Knowledge City-Region perspective. It attempts to describe their spatial footprint, their activities, and their socio-economic impacts. Then, based on a case study in the Mexico-Texas borderland, it is advanced that a multi-variable framework holds promise for the analysis of knowledge-based development initiatives and possibly for future developing regions at a global scale.

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