Macro-economic and Urban trends in Europe’s Information Society
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| theme |
Theme 2: The role of technology in growth and development |
| client |
European commission, DG Information society IST-2000-30117 |
| time frame |
2001-2004 |
| researcher(s) |
Theo Dunnewijk
Huub Meijers
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| description |
The MUTEIS project brings together two strands of research: First of all, a comparative, in-depth analysis of the macro-economic growth performance within the framework of the new emerging digital environment of the European growth success stories of the 90’s; second, a detailed, more qualitative analysis of the most important regional and urban developments in each of these countries, whether the result of private "natural" growth agglomeration effects or public initiatives, and focussing again on the particular role of ISTs in such developments. In a later stage of the project, this analysis will be extended to a European comparative urban development analysis. This stage is explicitly aimed at diffusing information and practical experience emerging from the possible "best-practice" urban development cases studied under part two of the project.
The objectives are:
- Explain the functional and spatial diversity in Europe's digital economy on a macro and regional/urban level
- Understand the macro-economic impact of the digital economy
- Understand the impact of the emerging digital economy on urban systems and different types of urban regions
- Link urban developments to macro-economic development
- Improve knowledge on the origins and causes of local diversities in the development of the digital economy in the FINS-countries
- Improve knowledge on successful strategic policy interventions
- Disseminate this knowledge to many urban regions in Europe
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| deliverables |
The main deliverables are:
- Digital economies in Europe
- Eight Case Studies: Portraits
- Policy lessons on cluster stimulation
- Eight Case Studies: Impacts of IST
- Policy lessons on IST adoption
- Synthesis: Forecasting Europe
- Publication of (interim) results
- More Case Studies: Benchmarking Europe
- Synthesis: lessons learnt
- 3 MUTEIS Conferences
- Project Web Forum
- Final Project Report
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