Tuesday, November 16, 2010

November 16-19, 2010 Melbourne, Australia. Integrating knowledge-based development in urban strategies and policies, beyond the provision of schools and locations for higher education, has become a new ambitious arena of city politics. Coming from theory to practice, and bringing together the manifold knowledge stakeholders in a city and preparing joint visions for the knowledge city is a new challenge for city managers. It requires visionary power, creativity, holistic thinking, the willingness to cooperate with all groups of the local civil society, and the capability to moderate communication processes to overcome conflicts and to develop joint action for a sustainable future.The Third Knowledge City World Summit aims to shed light on the multi-faceted dimensions and various scales of operation of the ‘knowledge city’ and 'knowledge-based development' paradigms. At this summit, the theoretical and practical maturing of knowledge-based development paradigms will be advanced through the interplay between the worlds leading academic’s theories and the practical models and strategies of practitioners’ and policy makers’ drawn from around the world.