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Toward a `New' Strategic Leadership of Place for the Knowledge-based Economy

John Gibney

University of Birmingham, UK, j.gibney{at}bham.ac.uk

Stuart Copeland

University of Surrey, UK

Alan Murie

University of Birmingham, UK

This paper addresses the changing leadership task associated with a new agenda about the leadership of place. The shifting development context for cities and regions — including the emergence of the creative city and the knowledge-based region — places a renewed emphasis on the importance of interdisciplinary processes that stimulate the creation and the exploitation of knowledge. Consequently there is a requirement for an approach to the leadership of processes of collaborative learning and `associational'working. There is, however, a general lack of alignment of the literature on leadership, place-shaping and the stimulation of the knowledge-based economy. This article refers to the existing leadership literature and draws upon research related to economic development policy to initiate a discussion about the new leadership of place. It presents a rationale and outlines an initial argument for a more comprehensive approach to the leadership of place that takes account of the paradigm shift occurring in urban and regional studies.

Key Words: knowledge-based economy • place-shaping • strategic leadership

Leadership, Vol. 5, No. 1, 5-23 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1742715008098307
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