Factors and metrics for knowledge & creativity clustering:From a Chinese Perspective
The author of this paper discovered China by 2002, since he went to participate in an international conference held in Shenzhen and co-organised by this City and UNIDO with respect to the knowledge economy. Fresh off the bus from Hong-Kong, while arriving for a conference on behalf of the European Commission１ in the field of regional development, he was surprised almost to the point of shock by the level of China’s development, by the mushrooming industrial area of Shenzhen2 and more particularly by its tremendous physical energy and strength. Despite this initial surprise, his following trips in China revealed even more astonishing insights, particularly as regards the quality of Chinese urban shopping in big cities as Shanghai, Suzhou, Beijing, Xi’An, etc. Instead of the calamitous economy he had heard described in discussions about China while in Europe, he found a country that had utterly embraced a buy-at-the-mall frenzy. Already, “a lot of shopping malls in China yet was larger than the hugest North-American malls, and by 2010, China is even expected to be home to at least seven of the world’s ten largest shopping malls. Thus, it is not surprising that developers here are spending billion of dollars to create these super-sized shopping centres in the country’s fastest-growing cities3.
Jean-Marie ROUSSEAU Jihong Wu SANDERSON
国际会议
XXII IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks(2005年国际科技园协会第22届世界大会)
北京
英文
358-376
2005-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）