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Rising Northern Light: A Systems Outlook on Manchester’s Knowledge-Based Capitals

Rising Northern Light: A Systems Outlook on Manchester’s Knowledge-Based Capitals

Blanca C. Garcia
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781615207213|ISBN10: 161520721X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616922528|EISBN13: 9781615207220
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-721-3.ch018
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Garcia, Blanca C. "Rising Northern Light: A Systems Outlook on Manchester’s Knowledge-Based Capitals." Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches, edited by Kostas Metaxiotis, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 296-314. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-721-3.ch018

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Garcia, B. C. (2010). Rising Northern Light: A Systems Outlook on Manchester’s Knowledge-Based Capitals. In K. Metaxiotis, F. Carrillo, & T. Yigitcanlar (Eds.), Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches (pp. 296-314). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-721-3.ch018

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Garcia, Blanca C. "Rising Northern Light: A Systems Outlook on Manchester’s Knowledge-Based Capitals." In Knowledge-Based Development for Cities and Societies: Integrated Multi-Level Approaches, edited by Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo, and Tan Yigitcanlar, 296-314. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-721-3.ch018

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Abstract

One of the difficulties in creating and sustaining knowledge cities is the lack of benchmarks to identify those cities and regions that are generating knowledge-driven initiatives, triggering development and collective value. One of such benchmarks is the value-based Generic Capital System (GCS) taxonomy. The rigorous application of GCS to cities in European contexts has already yielded its initial fruits, with Manchester as one of the cities in which a deeper perspective can be gained through the GCS lens. In this chapter, the author aims to introduce GCS as an integrative system of capitals for the case of the Greater Manchester city-region and its journey into developing its knowledge capitals. Through the lens of the GCS generic KC capital system taxonomy, some of Manchester’s systems of information, systems of learning and systems of knowledge are expected to emerge as a comprehensive meta system articulated by the extensive life-long learning initiatives implemented by Manchester’s development-based Knowledge-City schemes. The GCS lens will be introduced within the different system layers interacting in the city in order to discover how they tie the City’s learning, communicating and knowledge-sharing dynamics together in the emerging context of knowledge-based development initiatives. The chapter will attempt to highlight how ICT connectivity systems (managing information) could be viewed as closely linked to skill development (managing learning) and people’s management of tacit and explicit knowledge (knowing), with visible regional aspirations for development. Such systems view aims to cover a wider (although still limited) range of the instrumental, human and meta capitals observable in the city in a simultaneously rich mosaic of different layers. The city’s traditional and knowledge-intensive hubs, its communications and infrastructure, its identity, traditions and cultural diversity within the Greater Manchester city-region could therefore exemplify the consistent building of a system of capitals in a demanding knowledge-intensive context.

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