Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and...

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Main Author	Moisio, Sami
Format	eBook
Language	English
Published	Oxford Routledge 2018 University of Helsinki Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis
Edition	1
Series	Regions and Cities
Subjects	Contemporary Geopolitical Condition Contemporary Societies Creative City Creative Class Creativity Development studies Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Economic Geography Economic policy Economics Economics of industrial organization Economics, Finance, Business and Management Finnish Higher Education Policies Geography Geopolitical Assemblage Geopolitical Discourses Geopolitical Subjects Geopolitics Governance Human geography Industrial Economics Inter-territorial Competition Interdisciplinary studies John Agnew Keynesian National Welfare State Knowledge Intensive Capitalism Knowledge Intensive Economy Knowledge Intensive Form Knowledge management Knowledge-based Society Manuel Castells Moisio Sami National Innovation System Political economy Political Geography Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects Regional Development Regional Science Regional Studies Richard Florida RSA Sally Hardy Self-di Rection Social groups, communities and identities Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences Spatial Economics State Spatial Restructuring Technological innovations-Economic aspects Technopoles Territory Territory, Politics, Governance The City Transnational State Apparatus University Ranking Schemes Urban Audit Urban communities Urban Geopolitics Urban Politics Urban Studies Urban Theory Knowledge Intensive Capitalism Geopolitical Objects Global Engineer Contemporary Societies National Innovation System Creative City Transnational State Apparatus Knowledge Intensive Form Creative Class Finnish Higher Education Policies Geopolitical Subjects Inter-territorial Competition Contemporary Capitalist Condition Self-di Rection Territorial Competition Geopolitical Discourses Keynesian National Welfare State University Ranking Schemes Knowledge Intensive Economy Urban Audit Economic Imaginary Contemporary Geopolitical Condition Geopolitical Assemblage Urban Geopolitics State Spatial Restructuring
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ISBN	9781138821996 9780367871314 1138821993 0367871319 9781315742984 1315742985 9781317587767 1317587774 1317587766 9781317587774 9781317587750 1317587758
DOI	10.4324/9781315742984

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Universities as geopolitical sites -- Some further contours of the geopolitics of higher education -- The changing figure of an engineer from the 1950s to the present: the case of Finland -- The geopolitical discourse of the university reform in Finland -- The new learning environment -- Coping with knowledge-intensive form of capitalism: reforming higher education in Finland -- Interim conclusions -- Chapter 7: City geopolitics of knowledge-based economization -- Cities and knowledge-based economization -- On the concept of city geopolitics -- City geopolitics of spatial Keynesianism -- Toward a re-worked city geopolitics of state space -- The creative class as a geopolitical theory -- Guggenheim Helsinki and the limits of knowledge-based economization -- The EU and knowledge-based economization: from regional to urban form of knowledge-based economization? -- Chapter 8: Coda: Geopolitics of the knowledge-based economy -- Spatiality of the process of knowledge-based economization -- Some reflections on the role of the state in knowledge-based economization -- Neoliberalism and knowledge-based economization -- Toward a socio-spatial polarization? -- References -- Index
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Towards a political geography of economic geographies -- The structure of the book -- Chapter 2: Three readings of the knowledge-based economy: From economy to economization -- The knowledge-based economy as a discursive construct -- The materialist reading of the knowledge-based economy: the urban landscapes of technopolization and beyond -- Cultural political economy of the knowlesge-based economy -- Interim conclusions: the process of knowledge-based economization -- Chapter 3: Geopolitics and knowledge-based economization -- The state in the polycentric world -- The issue of de-geopolitization -- On the concept of geopolitics -- The geopolitical constitution of the knowledge-based economy -- Brief interim conclusions -- Chapter 4: Geopolitical discourses and objects of knowledge-based economization -- Geopolitical discourses of knowledge-based economization: production sites and actors -- Geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy: the role of management knowledge -- Porterian geopolitical reasoning: nationalizing inter-local competition -- Porterian geopolitical reasoning and knowledge-based economization -- Some implications of Porterian geopolitical reasoning -- Time, space, location and interaction in geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy -- The production of political communities as geopolitical objects of competition in virtual spaces of comparison -- Chapter 5: On geopolitical subjects of knowledge-based economization -- Spatial foundations of the new geopolitical subject -- Bringing labor into space -- Chapter 6: Higher education, geopolitical subject formation and knowledge-based economization