Innovation districts as strategic urban projects : the emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation

This paper contributes to the emerging research on innovation districts (IDs) by conceptualizing them as strategic urban projects. IDs connect innovative activities to their spatial foundations and thus provide a territorial framework for strategic spatial planning efforts. The extant literature on IDs, focusing mainly on ID characteristics and placemaking, has failed to acknowledge that ID development requires an integrated planning approach to realize the so-called new union between form and function, which is often executed via strategic urban projects. Integrated planning, as discussed in the literature on strategic spatial planning, emphasizes coordination both between a range of stakeholder interests and between administrative sectors and spatial scales. This, in turn, is often rooted in path-dependent connections between diverse sectors and organizations. A case study examines the gradual adoption of the new strategic planning approach while the Turku Science Park area in the city of Turku, Finland, was being transformed into an ID. It demonstrates the rise of a new integrated rationale in contemporary urban planning and economic development, one that strategically envisions a spatial form for economic development objectives. The case offers lessons for academic and policy debates on ID development, underscoring competence building in strategic spatial planning.© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s)or with their consent.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Circuits of architecture and urban planning : Professional ethos and the internationalization of small architectural offices

Although the production of the built environment is increasingly globalized, and architecture and urban planning (AUP) professionals are known to be the key carriers of mobile ideas, the internationalization of small owner-centred architectural offices has gained little academic attention, compared to the large consultancies that dominate the global market. We bring together the literature on the circuits of urban planning ideas, the international movement of AUP firms and professional ethoses to explore the internationalization of small AUP offices. Using interview data from Finnish offices, we investigate the ‘what, where, why and how’ and find that they have entered specific geographically delimited AUP circuits demarcated by type of project. We contribute to the literature by identifying motives characteristic of small offices guided by professional ethoses suited to the circuits where they internationalize. Their ethoses may evolve in time and space, as they operate in new circuits. We propose that ethos–circuit coherence may contribute to the successful internationalization of small architectural offices. The findings open avenues for further research on professional ethos not only of architects but also other internationally operating professionals, as it may guide their decisions by other than a narrowly conceived profit motive.© 2021 The Authors. Global Networks published by Global Networks Partnership and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters

What constitutes the “landing” of “traveling planning concepts” (TPCs) in new places remains conceptually elusive in the literature. To explore this process, this paper proposes a multidimensional conceptual framework that identifies key recurring activities during landing. The framework is applied to a qualitative analysis of the ongoing development of an innovation district in the rising yet unequal city of Medellín. The analysis reveals a process during which introductions of the concept with add-on components were legitimized based on translations adjusting it to the local circumstances, while governance procedures coordinated mandates for action, and a version of the concept gradually materialized. These recurring activities constituted mechanisms that generated the progression of landing through subsequent phases. In Medellín, the TPC resulted in a distributed model that corresponds neither to the prevailing innovation district concept nor the locally intended socially inclusive version. This paper contributes by showing why the analysis of landing processes is key to understanding whether, how, and in what form traveling planning concepts appear in new destinations. This novel framework enables a systematic and comprehensive identification of the causal process comprising the mechanisms that make both the TPC landing and the version of the TPC it produces unique.</p

Place in entrepreneurial storytelling: A study of cultural entrepreneurship in a deprived context

We extend the cultural entrepreneurship perspective by investigating how entrepreneurs in deprived contexts gain legitimacy by leveraging proprietary and public places in their entrepreneurial storytelling. Inspired by the sociology of place, we present a longitudinal study of 10 new venture journeys over four years in Kasoa, Ghana. We identify three distinct ways places are used in entrepreneurial narratives: projective significance of place, connective significance of place, and authoritative significance of place. We show how impoverished entrepreneurs construct and communicate places in diverse ways, not only as locations, but also as material and symbolic resources that provide legitimacy for their venturing activities. Drawing from our findings, we generate a model of place-based cultural entrepreneurship and elaborate place as a central resource in cultural entrepreneurship and new venture creation in deprived contexts

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The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering

Multiple theories of the same phenomenon abound in many interdisciplinary research areas, but itis often unclear how the theories relate, and there are no clear guidelines for dealing with thisplurality. The history of research on spatial industrial clustering is a case in point. We identify anumber of solutions to the problem of multiple theoretical accounts proposed in this literature.We label them definitional, taxonomic, integrative, and multi-perspectival. We then offer theerotetic solution as an indispensable complement to any attempt at resolving the multiple-theoriesproblem. It accounts for theoretical plurality in terms of different explanation-seeking questionsdifferent theories aim to address. We analyse three prominent explanations in the recent historyof research on spatial industrial clustering and show how the erotetic approach can contribute tofoster interdisciplinary dialogue.</p

Oppilaat puhuvat palautteesta – kannattaisiko kuunnella?

Tässä artikkelissa selostetaan tiivistäen tutkimusta ”Palaute osana formatiivista arviointiprosessia: Vuorovaikutusta vai monologia”. Tutkimustulosten mukaan perusopetuksen viides- ja kuudesluokkalaiset olisivat halunneet enemmän etenkin positiivista palautetta. Palaute koettiin oppilaita vertailevaksi, ja sen sanallinen tai numeerinen esitystapa jakoi oppilaiden mielipiteitä. Palaute oli kohdentunut etenkin oppilaan itsesäätely- ja tehtävätaitoihin mutta paljon myös oppilaaseen henkilönä. Palauteprosessit eivät olleet vuorovaikutteisia. Oppilaille palaute oli arvioinnin synonyymi, vaikka käsitteellisesti ensin tulee arviointi ja sitten palaute. Lopuksi tuloksia tulkitaan osin uudelleen käsitteillä ’oppilaan palauteosaaminen’ ja ’ediste’

INFLUENCE OF PERSUASIVE REMINDERS AND VIRTUAL REHEARSAL ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR SLEEP DEPRIVATION

Appropriate amount and good quality of sleep are essential for mental and general well-being. Sleep deprivation and other chronic sleep disorders could lead to negative consequences for health, poor quality of life and reduced competence. An individual’s quality of life could be unsettled because of several reasons, sleep deprivation is one of them. Information systems (IS) and human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers have paid considerable attention to promote healthy behaviors however sleep deprivation as a problem domain has received relatively little attention. In this paper, we present qualitative findings from a field study that examined potential influence of persuasive reminders and virtual rehearsal on the effectiveness of a Behavior Change Support System (BCSS). Tyyne is a BCSS developed for people suffering from sleep deprivation. The content of virtual rehearsal modules were drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Participants were recruited through newspaper advertisements. After screening at the university clinic, eligible participants (n = 86) were randomized into an Intervention group and a Control (wait-list) group. For data collection, we employed pre and post study structured questionnaires. Upon completion of the study, 41 participants volunteered to complete post study questionnaires. The findings reveal that a moderate number of participants (60.5%) improved their sleeping habits, a significantly high number of participants (79.1%) approved the BCSS, a staggering high number (93.0%) of the participants agreed that learning new skills through web-based BCSS is a good idea, and a substantial number of participants (72.1%) believed that persuasive reminders help people in task completion and compliance. Even though only about one third of participants (37.2%) reported that after using the BCSS they could better manage their sleep disorders, we suggest that the findings are encouraging. Given that treating sleep deprivation requires much longer periods of time than the intervention’s duration (in our case it was 6 weeks), improvement with one third of the participants is nevertheless a promising result. On the whole, persuasive reminders and virtual rehearsal as software features have a significant potential to enhance overall effectiveness of information systems for chronic sleep disorders

Palaute osana formatiivista arviointiprosessia : Vuorovaikutusta vai monologia?

Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin perusopetuksen oppilaiden käsityksiä saamastaan palautteesta. Palaute käsitteellistettiin oppilaan ja opettajan vuorovaikutteiseksi prosessiksi, joka on vaikuttava osa formatiivista arviointia oppimisprosessien tukemisessa. Palaute jäsennettiin sen strategioiden, sisältöjen ja kohteiden avulla. Empiirisinä aineistoina olivat viides- ja kuudesluokkalaisten (N = 62) ryhmähaastattelut ja kuudesluokkalaisten (N = 1876) vastaukset avoimiin kysymyksiin. Tulosten mukaan palaute kohdistui usein itsesäätelyyn. Lisäksi palaute kohdistui varsin paljon oppilaaseen itseensä, vaikka minäpalautteen ei ole tutkitusti todettu edistävän oppimisprosesseja. Palaute oli yhteydessä oppimista koskevaan innostukseen ja siihen, miten tärkeäksi arviointi koettiin. Palautteen vuorovaikutteisuus ei etenkään digitaalisesti välitettynä toteutunut, vaan oppilas jäi palautteen passiiviseksi vastaanottajaksi. Tutkimus antaa tärkeää tietoa perusopetuksen ajankohtaiseen kansalliseen arvioinnin kehittämistyöhön.Peer reviewe