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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue9SI,P.1815-1834

语言

英文

关键字

Generative growth; cluster-platforms; "thin' globalization; Cambridge "phenomenon'; "crossover' innovations; systems design

作者单位

[Cooke, Philip] West Norway Univ Appl Sci, Mohn Ctr Innovat & Reg Dev, Bergen, Norway. Cooke, P (reprint author), West Norway Univ Appl Sci, Mohn Ctr Innovat & Reg Dev, Bergen, Norway. E-Mail: cookepn@cardiff.ac.uk

摘要

Changes in leading-edge urban and regional development processes and policies signify the rise of the Quaternary' or 4.0 Era of economic growth. Few such spaces exist yet, but they have prodigious global reach from locations like Cambridge (as the exemplar here), Israel and Silicon Valley. Their surface spread has led to the designation thin globalization' compared with thick' antecedents based on manufacturing and routine services. Each displays post-cluster' or platform' inter-connectivity and even early signs of de-globalization' via on-shoring of suppliers. Pioneers in crossover' innovation 4.0 platform evolution include flagship' corporations like FAGAMi (Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft). These and other flagships acquire and site labs in proximity to Cambridge's and other university research institutes and talent. They work to what seems like a neoliberal Plan for the Future' in at least three cases embedded in futuristic urban design utopias. This further advantages innovation microsystems' like Cambridge and innovation macrosystems' like Silicon Valley that evolve diversified platform-clusters' of crossover' innovations flowing from interactions among microelectronic systems, advanced mobility, machine learning, AI, robotics be mitigated healthcare. The research problem is how can such extreme uneven growth polarization and