The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …

Terwijl de bevolkingsontwikkeling in Europa stagneert, groeien steden nog steeds. Ze bieden immers een hoog voorzieningenniveau en de economische activiteiten concentreren zich daar steeds meer. Waar veel van deze activiteiten in het verleden aan een plek gebonden waren door lokale beschikbaarheid van …

Innovation is not what it was in the 20th century; the classic century of R & D based innovation. The nature of innovation is changing, only in part because different technologies dominate innovation. This paper identifies three main societal trends that are of major importance for strategic management …

In the current discourses on sustainable development, one can discern two main intellectual cultures: an analytic one focusing on measuring problems and prioritizing measures, (Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Mass Flow Analysis (MFA), etc.) and; a policy/management one, focusing on long term change, change …