The Role of Knowledge-Based and Innovative Cities in Urban and Regional Development

The overuse of unstable urban income to develop cities has created a lot of problems for communities. Indeed, continuing this trend has posed a serious challenge to cities and regions.

Investigating the role of knowledge-based areas in urban and regional development based on theoretical foundations and global experiences.

Theoretical and library methods have been used to study the theoretical foundations and experimental records.

Innovation is one of the main pillars of knowledge-based cities that is the focus of interest in recent decades. One of the outcomes of innovation areas is the formation of knowledge-based cities. Hence, city-regions are the center of growth and the center of knowledge. Therefore, the competitive advantage of urban areas will not be based only on natural resources or cheap labor; indeed, the role of knowledge becomes more important. The process of innovation actually addresses what makes knowledge valuable and how it is created through interactive and complex relationships in an institutional setting. In other words, the key elements of this complex are universities, industries, and governments. If they connect optimally, good development will be achieved through knowledge-based cities and regions. The global experiences have represented this fact clearly.

The link between creative individuals, major investors, and urban and regional rulers has provided a conducive environment for the emergence of a new concept in the scientific community. This emerging concept has been called Knowledge-Based City. The two driving forces in the formation of cities and areas of knowledge have changed the spatial structure of planning and divided it into three levels of regional planning, urban planning, and urban design. Given the important role of the relationship between urban and regional planning in a coherent hierarchical system, It is important to focus on the regional innovation system and the coherent relationship between the levels of regional planning, urban planning and urban design in the creation and operation of knowledge-based cities.