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From university town to knowledge city: strategies and regulatory hurdles in Germany

From university town to knowledge city: strategies and regulatory hurdles in Germany

Peter Franz
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781599047201|ISBN10: 1599047209|EISBN13: 9781599047225
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-720-1.ch006
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Franz, Peter. "From university town to knowledge city: strategies and regulatory hurdles in Germany." Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era, edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, et al., IGI Global, 2008, pp. 101-115. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-720-1.ch006

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Franz, P. (2008). From university town to knowledge city: strategies and regulatory hurdles in Germany. In T. Yigitcanlar, K. Velibeyoglu, & S. Baum (Eds.), Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era (pp. 101-115). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-720-1.ch006

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Franz, Peter. "From university town to knowledge city: strategies and regulatory hurdles in Germany." In Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era, edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Koray Velibeyoglu, and Scott Baum, 101-115. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-720-1.ch006

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Abstract

The trend of cities, serving as a location for universities and research institutes, to take into consideration new strategies utilizing this location factor for growth-oriented urban development can also be observed in Germany. An overview of the quantitative preconditions shows that many German cities dispose of favorite preconditions for such a knowledge city strategy. An analysis of the policy arena comes to the result that the political actors are confronted with the task of a complex multi-level-policy where networking skills become essential. A comparison with the policy conditions in the U.S. makes it quite clear that especially the German universities have the status of semi-autonomous actors complicating negotiating and coordinating activities between city and science representatives. First examples of deregulation show that these hurdles can be overcome in the future.

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