A Hermeneutic Approach to the Knowledge Economy

Cusinato, Augusto

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45173-7_6

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“…It is based on the ways in which economic actors interpret reality, react to external stimuli and are capable of synergic and co–operative behaviour. Sense of belonging, place loyalty and place “affection” engender local creativity and possibly innovation in a non‐deterministic manner, mixing shared knowledge and urban identity (Cusinato, ; Cusinato & Philippopoulos‐Mihalopoulos, ).…”

Section: The Scientific Contributions After the Establishment Of The mentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions by Italian scholars to regional science

Camagni

Capello

2020

Papers in Regional Science

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Regional science in Italy has a long tradition marked by the distinctive characteristics of the country, namely the presence of multiple and dynamic medium‐sized cities, a traditional and persistent spatial dualism, and the success of intermediate income regions marked by the presence of SMEs. Particularly the third element has led to the creation of an “interpretative paradigm”—known as “endogenous development,” or “development from below”—today well‐structured and established in the discipline. It is the generator of innovative theoretical concepts and interpretations. These features are interesting and justify the intention of this paper to provide an analysis of the development of regional science through the major innovative contributions of Italian scholars.

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Section: The Scientific Contributions After the Establishment Of The mentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions by Italian scholars to regional science

Camagni

Capello

2020

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“…The broader concept of atmosphere emerged in philosophy and architecture (Böhme, 1995;Zumthor, 2012) but it is now present in such various domains as organisation management, public art, and law (Bachmann and Beyes, 2013;Borch, 2014;Cusinato, 2015;Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2014;Sloterdijk, 2005). Of course, different disciplines have used it in different ways.…”

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Atmosphere in Participatory Design

Cozza

Cusinato

Philippopoulos‐Mihalopoulos

2019

Science as Culture

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The relationship between democracy and design has been the topic of significant discussion in the design community. It is also at the core of participatory design that relies on the principle of genuine participation. According to this, users are not mere informants but legitimate participants in the design process. A great deal of participatory design, however, is driven by instrumental logics rather than participatory and democratic principles. In analysing these power relations, science and technology studies (STS) provides the starting point to introduce the concepts of 'engineering an atmosphere' (i.e. the process) and 'engineered atmosphere' (i.e. the outcome). These concepts problematise the principles and modes of participatory design, highlighting the tensions between economic and social agendas and top-down and bottom-up interactions. This problematic can be shown in the way that new teachnologies are targeted at older populations, necessitating an interrogation of the processes underpirnning the design and development of technological products and devices. It is important to reflect on who is included and who is excluded from technological design and innovation, which is always, and necessarily so, a fluid process.

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“…Independently of the way this activity is now labelled – symbolic analysis, immaterial labour, knowledge‐based or intensive knowledge‐based activities, cognitariat (Scott ) or creativity (which I prefer for epistemological and analytical reasons; Cusinato ) – a broad consensus has formed around the idea that, while requiring relative freedom from conditioning of both goals and means, it lies increasingly under the enterprise alert eyes, insofar as this latter considers it as the crucial source for innovation. Consensus has also plainly arisen around the idea that innovation allows firms to realise extra‐profits, according to Schumpeter's view, whereas the acknowledgement that this goal hides a rent‐seeking attitude by firms remains rather disquieting to mainstream economic thought.…”

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“…But, despite the opinion of some scholars and columnists, this trend does not entail the end of distance and the city itself. The pervasiveness of ICTs is actually releasing dialogical activities from the functional and spatial links they previously and necessarily had with the syntactical ones (Autor et al ; Scott ; Cusinato ), thus revealing the peculiar kind of agglomeration economies they rely upon: dense networks of highly skilled, varied and versatile professional figures (Asheim et al ); physical though maybe temporary proximity, along with openness to external networks (Torre ; Scott ); structured though flexible relationships among firms, research organizations and institutions (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff ), as well as tolerant and vivid milieus (Florida ).…”

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A comment on Scott and Storper's ‘The nature of cities: The scope and limits of urban theory’

Cusinato

2016

Papers in Regional Science

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Facing the main historical realizations of the city and the main theorizations about it, Scott and Storper look for identifying its invariant character. By distinguish between issues that, while occurring in the city, originate elsewhere in the social realm and issues that are intrinsic to it, they point to the ‘urban land nexus’ as the city unifying explicative principle, which stems from the trade‐off between agglomeration economies and land shortage. I argue that this outcome lies on the confusion between the city and urban agglomeration at large and, ultimately, on the unresolved quarrel between structuralism and empiricism.

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A Hermeneutic Approach to the Knowledge Economy

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Contributions by Italian scholars to regional science

Contributions by Italian scholars to regional science

Atmosphere in Participatory Design

A comment on Scott and Storper's ‘The nature of cities: The scope and limits of urban theory’

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