ACCOMMODATING
CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE
IN EUROPEAN
METROPOLITAN REGIONS
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
Institute of Socio-Economic Geography
and Spatial Management, Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
It does not suffice to promote innovation
at national and European levels. Regions
and cities do matter - provided they are
able to create innovative milieux
(Drewe 2006: 167).
Grand Research Programme
Reactive approach: it should bring
together and react to the different
concepts and studies that have appeared
in the global arena so far.
Proactive approach: it should be a source
of new original ideas and proposals.
Accommodating Creative
Knowledge - Competitiveness of
European Metropolitan Regions
within the Enlarged Union Amsterdam
Barcelona
Birmingham
Budapest
Dublin
6th framework, citizen 4, priority 7, topic 1.1.2:
Helsinki
“Growth, employment and competitiveness in Leipzig
a knowledge-based economy” Milan
Munich
Poznan
Riga
Sofia
Toulouse
The ACRE consortium partners
Project’s central question
What are the conditions for creating or
stimulating 'creative knowledge regions' in
the context of the extended European
Union?
More particularly, what is the role of so-
called 'soft' factors in creating and
stimulating 'creative knowledge regions'?
One of major research issues
To what extent such factors as the
attractiveness of the residential
environment, public space and meeting
places, the diversity of the local
population, a tolerant atmosphere, the
cultural heritage, a subjective feeling of
security, and job satisfaction affect the
creativity of both individuals and
metropolitan regions.
Target groups
higher school graduates,
workers and managers in creative and
knowledge-intensive industries,
transnational migrants.
Spatial dimension of the
behaviour of the creative class is
connected with the processes of:
urban renewal,
suburbanisation.
The future of European regions largely
depends on policies focusing on the
development of their creativity and
innovativeness (at the Union, national,
regional and local levels).
Local Partnerships
Local Partnerships
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
Success stories of creative regions:
business- and technology-oriented
culture-oriented
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
Creative sector understood in a narrower
sense as embracing such activities as fine
and performing arts, design, architecture,
media and entertainment, etc.
Knowledge-intensive sector, e.g. science,
R&D, ICT.
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
Unequivocal answer to the question:
Does the growth of the creative sectors and
creative regions undermine social cohesion
or
does it offer new chances for marginalised social
groups and peripheral areas to participate in
economic and social progress?
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
Population diversity and a significant
cultural heritage as crucial pre-conditions
of the development of creativity?
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
Search for a mega-theory integrating the
various conceptual streams and
approaches, and in addition relevant to
really global conditions in all their
diversity.
Some ideas and new questions stemming
from the ACRE project to be accommodated
in the Grand Research Programme "The
Future of European Regions"
How to define and reconstruct the 'driving
forces' (or the mechanism of
transformation) which determine the
future of European (and global) regions?