ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the current practices of knowledge-based management in the context of cities and their regions. This is carried out by two means. First, the existing literature concerning the knowledge-based management of cities and their regions is reviewed. This provides a wide overview of various managerial approaches in different contexts. Second, the knowledge-based management challenges and practices of a case city and its region are presented and analyzed to explore the theme in more detail and under particular contextual conditions. The chapter discusses some of the "implicit" knowledge-based management practices in addition to the explicit ones. The findings of the literature review, which are discussed later, reveal only a part of the reality of cities' and their regions' knowledge-based management practices: that of explicit and planned knowledge-based management practices, that is, those cases in which a city or its region has made a conscious decision to apply a specific knowledge-based management model or approach.
