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Sustainability and innovation in urban development: concept and case
Author(s) -
Mieg Harald A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sustainable development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.115
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1099-1719
pISSN - 0968-0802
DOI - 10.1002/sd.471
Subject(s) - sustainability , corporate governance , resource (disambiguation) , sustainable development , urban planning , process (computing) , business , identity (music) , innovation process , urban sustainability , environmental planning , regional science , environmental resource management , sociology , political science , economics , geography , marketing , engineering , work in process , computer science , ecology , law , computer network , acoustics , biology , operating system , civil engineering , physics , finance
This paper discusses commonalities between two planning‐related discourses: sustainable urban development and innovation. It is argued that one common denominator between these discourses is a resource‐based view of urban project management. Implementing sustainability and initiating urban innovation both can be reframed as a multilevel governance process of resource management. The paper discusses sustainable urban development and the innovation concept using Berlin‐Adlershof, one of Europe's largest urban science and technology parks, as an example. A resource‐based view reveals a particular governance‐related resource that seems to be underestimated both by the innovation and the sustainability discourse: identity. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.