Knowledge-based strategic planning: harnessing (in)tangible assets of city-regions

Abstract

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways of best managing city-regions’ valuable tangible and intangible assets while pursuing a knowledge-based urban
development that is sustainable and competitive.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a theoretical framework to conceptualise a new strategic planning mechanism, knowledge-based strategic planning,
which has been emerged as a planning mechanism for the knowledge-based urban development of post-industrial city-regions.
Originality/value – The paper develops a planning framework entitled 6K1C for knowledge-based strategic planning to be used in the analysis of city-regions’ tangible and intangible assets.
Practical implications – The paper discusses the importance of asset mapping of cityregions, and explores the ways of successfully managing city-regions’ tangible/intangible
assets to achieve an urban development that is sustainable and knowledge-based.
Keywords – Knowledge-based urban development, Knowledge-based strategic planning, Tangible assets, Intangible assets, City-regions.
Paper type – Academic Research Paper