Knowledge Economy and Sociospacial Polarisation

Dear all,

Thank you for the research proposals which are a good start for your research. I 'd like to give you some general and some group-specific recommendations:

General feedback:

- Due to the difficulties in oversea communication, you need not include trans-atlantic comparisons in your research paper. However, you should read the contributions of your colleagues and discuss/compare the results with them via mail, skype, weblog. The results and findings of your exchange with your colleagues from Recife should enrich our discussions in the seminar and be part of the final reflections.
- Concerning the structure of your research paper please follow the guidelines of the Research program, posted by Michaela on may, 8th. Two groups have done this already, for the other two groups it will be helpful to structure the paper.
- Please discuss within your group. Intra-group dialogue is important to improve the final result. It should be a group work and a final GROUP term paper!
- - The first presentation of your field research results should take place in the seminar in May, 29th. It will be an oral presentation. The research paper should be submitted before june 19th.

- Please adapt your research proposals according to this feedback and post it in the Weblog by next Tuesday!

Group specific feedback:

Group 1/ Knowledge economy:
good structure and method of data evaluation. Please post your research proposal.

Group 2/ Social Polarisation:
good structure; The research question !Inwiefern wird bewusst versucht, Polarisierung zu beeinflussen..." can be part of the final section of the paper, but should not be the research question. Please integrate this comment and then post your research proposal.

Group 3/ Alternatives:
Please be aware that it is a group activity which gains by working and discussing together. You should start with describing the initiatives, what they have in common and what distinguishes them. Whether the initiatives you explore ARE bridge-building, is still to be verified. It's part of the research work to find it out.
Please integrate this comment and then post your research proposal.

Group 4/ Sociospatial Polarisation:
Please add non-state and non-institutional planner, as mentioned in Diebäcker. I recommend Christof Stoik (I am trying to get his e-mail); Florentina Astleiter is another planner (Lukas Lengauer has her e-mail). Do you really need your “possible interview partner”?
You have three quite different questions in your proposal which is difficult to get a clear structure. I propose to adapt the third question: Do official and critical planners perceive learning and the knowledge economy as cause of or remedy for sociospatial polarisation?

The research programme should be a guideline for the field research and offers useful suggestions and examples. You can also find the different groups and the corresponding group members.
Research-programme (doc, 33 KB)

Each group should present their literature overview in approximately 15 minutes. It should prepare a short hand out and put it in the weblog to permit the transcontinental partner to access it.

1.) The presentation should include a short summary of main concepts and ideas which should be directed to the key question of the seminar: The relationship between the knowledge economy and socioeconomic polarisation. Relating two apparently separated topics, as well as geographically separated cities is an endeavour of bridge-building in different aspects. The presentation should focus on aspects that relate to this question.

2.) The group should undertake a proper reflection relating the respective literature to the following key concepts: (economic and social, rich and poor, centre and periphery, freedom and equality, efficiency and justice, competitiveness and inclusion. This second part of the presentation is important to permit focussing our discussions. Bridge-building means overcoming simple forms of thinking in dualism and dichotomies) and transforming this approach in a dialectical relationship which links aspects that seem to have nothing in common.

Group A: Knowledge Economy and Sociospatial Polarisation in Vienna

COMPULSORY LITERATURE:

Steinbach, Josef, Mösgen, Andrea, Kaiser, Alexandra (2005): Historische Sozialraumanalyse für das Wiener Stadtgebiet II: 1971-1981-1991-2001. In: Reihe "Dokumentation - Erarbeitung STEP Wien 2005", Stadtentwicklung Wien (ed.). Wien.

Tödtling, Franz/Trippl, Michaela (forthcoming): Knowledge links in high-technology industries: markets, networks or milieu? The case of the Vienna biotechnology cluster. In: International Journal Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.

Redak, Vanessa/Novy, Andreas/Becker, Joachim (2003).
Modernizing or Polarizing Vienna? In: Frank Moulaert/Arantxa Rodriguez/Erik Swyngedouw (eds.): The Globalized City - Economic Restructuring and Social Polarisation in European Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 167-180.

OPTIONAL LITERATURE:

Trippl, Michaela/Tödtling, Franz (2006): From the ivory tower to the market place? The changing role of knowledge organisations in spurring the development of biotechnology clusters in Austria. In: SRE-Discussion 2006/07. Wien: Institute for Regional Development and Environment. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Trippl, Michaela/von Gabain, Joshua/Tödtling, Franz (2006): Policy agents as catalysts of knowledge links in the biotechnology sector. Wien: Institute for Regional Development and Environment. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Novy, Andreas/Redak, Vanessa/Jäger, Johannes/Hamedinger, Alexander (2001): The End of Red Vienna: Recent Ruptures and Continuities in Urban Governance. In: European Urban and Regional Studies 8 (2), 131-144.

Group B: Alternative Theories of Socioeconomic Development

COMPULSORY LITERATURE:

Novy, Andreas/Lengauer, Lukas/Trippl, Michaela (2006): Thematic Synthesis Paper 6: Development. Demologos Discussion Paper.

Novy, Andreas (2005a): Didaktische Anregungen der Befreiungspädagogik Paulo Freires für die Entwicklungsforschung. In: SRE-DISC.2005/01. Wien: Institut für Regional- und Umweltwirtschaft.

Novy, Andreas (2005b): Von Paulo Freire lernen. In: Gerald Faschingeder/N. Ornig (eds.): Globalisierung ent-wickeln. Eine Reflexion über Entwicklung, Globalisierung udn Repolitisierung. Wien: Mandelbaum.

OPTIONAL LITERATURE:

Freire, Paulo (1984): Pädogogik der Unterdrückten. Bildung als Praxis der Freiheit. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt: Kap. 3

Group C: Theories of the Knowledge Economy

COMPULSORY LITERATURE:

Freeman, Chris (2002): 8. The Learning Economy and International Inequality. In: Daniele Archibugi/Bengt-Ake Lundvall (eds.): The Globalizing Learning Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 147-163.

Lundvall, Bengt-Ake (2002): Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy. The Globalizing Learning Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 273-310.

Moulaert, Frank/Sekia, Farid (2003): Territorial Innovation Models: A Critical Survey. In: Regional Studies 37 (3), 289 - 302.

OPTIONAL LITERATURE:

Moulaert, Frank/Nussbaumer, Jacques (2005): The social region - Beyond the territorial dynamics of the Learning Economy. In: European Urban and Regional Studies 12 (1), 45-64.

Lundvall, Bengt-Ake/Archibugi, Daniele (2002): Introduction: Europe and the Learning Economy. The Globalizing Learning Economy. 1-19.

Soete, Luc (2002): The New Economy: A European Perspective. In: Daniele Archibugi/Bengt-Ake Lundvall (eds.): The Globalizing Learning Economy: Oxford University Press. 21-45.

Group D: Theories of sociospatial polarisation

COMPULSORY LITERATURE:

Hamnett, Chris (2001). Social Segregation and Social Polarisation. In: Ronan Paddison (ed.): Handbook of Urban Studies. London: SAGE. 143 - 161.

Moulaert, Frank/Swyngedouw, Erik/Rodriguez, Arantxa (eds., 2003): The Globalized City. Economic restructuring and social polarization in European Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press: Chapter 2 and 3.

OPTIONAL LITERATURE:

Bridge, Gary/Watson, Sophie (2000). City Differences. In: Gary Bridge/Sophie Watson (eds.): A Companion to the City. Oxford: Blackwell. 251 - 260.

Hamnett, Chris (2000). Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities. In: Gary Bridge/Sophie Watson (eds.): A Companion to the City. Oxford: Blackwell. 331 - 341.