Innovation, Technologies and Healthy Territories

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge in the field of Human Geography curricular units (Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Health Geography, Planning and Spatial Planning) and technical skills in the field of data analysis and cartography (Data Analysis in Geography, Cartography and Systems of Geographic Information).

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are based on the presentation and critical discussion of the main themes that allow reflection on territorial changes, based on examples and using various supports (bibliography - books, articles and documents/reports/studies -, websites, documentaries, reports and movies).

Learning Outcomes

The general objective of the seminar is to provide students with knowledge and skills that allow a critical reading of the dimensions to be valued in defining territorial development strategies, considering knowledge and innovation as essential dimensions to respond to changes in geography economic activities. It is intended that students understand the importance of different types of knowledge for innovation (economic, social and territorial) and for the construction of innovative, creative and healthy territories. On the other hand, it also seeks to reflect on the role that technology plays in economic changes and the emergence of new relationships with expression in territories and also to identify and understand how the digitization of the economy has consequences in the relationship between Man-Technology-Space. Examples are valued at different geographic scales of analysis.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Knowledge, innovation and territory.

- Knowledge and territory.

- Innovation and territory.

- Geography of innovation.

- Spaces for innovation.

2. Technologies and space.

- Technology and economic change.

- Geography of the digital economy.

- Economy of sharing.

- Smart cities and territorial intelligence.

3. Innovation applied to the production of healthy territories and territorialities.

- Technologies and accessibility in vulnerable territories.

- The innovation and quality of life of populations

- Technologies in support of healthy aging.

- The social risks inherent to innovation and technological development. Reflection and mitigation.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Research work: 40.0%

Bibliography

Clark, G. L. Feldman, M. P. Gertler, M. S. & Wójcik, D. (Ed.) (2018). The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Crooks, V. A. Andrews, G. J. & Pearce, J. (Ed.) (2018). Routledge Handbook of Health Geography. New York: Routledge.

D’Onofrio, R. & Trusiani, E. (2018). Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Mackinnon, D. & Cumbers, A. (2019). An Introduction to Economic Geography. Globalization, Uneven Development and Place. London: Routledge.

McCann, P. (2015). The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

McLean, J. (2020). Changing Digital Geographies: Technologies, Environments and People. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Warf, B. (Ed.) (2017). Handbook on Geographies of Technology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Yigitcanlar, T. & Inkinen, T. (2019). Geographies of Disruption. Place Making for Innovation in the Age of Knowledge Economy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.