Research On Development Route Of Knowledge City Based On Fuzzy Evaluation Of Urban Development Capability

Knowledge city (abbreviated to KC) is a new urban model that is a development integration of "cluster of Knowledge-based economy","Smart city" and" Digital city"(Arbonies&Moso,2002; Garcia,2004). In international area, KC development from conceptual model to practice is more than ten years. During this period, many foreign scholars led by Leif Edvinsson have done many research on many areas such as conceptual model of KC, knowledge-based development mechanism and so on, and introduced a widely recognized "KC standard". Along with studies of KC theory, international KC development also has gained significance. As early as the beginning of this century, some cities located in Europe, America and Southeast of Asia has launched KC strategy and carried out much useful practice. Up to now, a number of cities of them have become excellent knowledge-based urban development examples as their outstanding development achievements, such as Melbourne of Australia, Delft of Netherlands, and Boston of America and so on. Nowadays, development value of KC is recognized by more international cities and knowledge-based urban development mode is received more widespread attention and practice.As for china, KC research is still in the stage of introduction and KC practice is also in its initial state. However, the domestic situation of social transition and knowledge economy innovation is meeting with the demand of new urban development promoted by domestic city authorities, which is an important driving force to promote development transformation of domestic cities. Obviously, it will create a fantastic space for KC development of china in future. Thus, more research related to KC development based on current domestic situation is quite required, and such studies should around two issues of "If can develop KC" and "how to develop KC" first of all. Although these two questions seem too broad, in fact, a more essential question implicated by them is more worthy of studying. It is that how to evaluate a city’s resource and capability scientifically to decide whether and how to transform to KC. Obviously, designing such an evaluation model oriented by knowledge-based city strategy is a useful attempt to solve this problem above. It is the essence and purpose of this study. Around this issue, this paper is divided into nine chapters:research backgrounds and literature reviews are completed in the first two chapters; chapter3is a systematic analysis of KC including its concept, development mechanism and development trend and so on, the aim of this chapter is to answer the question of "what KC is". From dual perspective of historical process and current situation of domestic urban development, chapter4is to demonstrate the reality and feasibility of KC development for our domestic cities. From chapter5to chapter8, the study is focused on design of evaluation index system and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of knowledge-based urban development capability based on dynamic capability theory and explanation of evaluation mechanism by a selected city case of Hefei. Chapter9is to discuss the development method and its practice tools based on capability evaluation. In order to implicate application value of method research, a case study of Hefei city on its KC development path is added in the end.This study mainly found that, KC is a more comprehensive urban model of current mainstream city forms and some domestic cities already have such development conditions. Seeking the best development method need to assess their development resource and real capability properly. Different kind of resource and capability means different transformation method. Capability evaluation can fully display a city’s advantages and disadvantages in four areas including knowledge economy, social capital, technology application and city governance and their subtle areas. The evaluation result can be used as an important basis for design knowledge-based urban development path. Although different city has different KC development method, an optimal combination and dynamic balance of six projects (including concept social promotion, development of knowledge-based economy, construction of knowledge networks, implication of knowledge management program, multi cooperation among city stakeholders and good governance) are needed for any city oriented to KC.