Abstract
The specialised literature is almost unanimous regarding the close relationship between innovation, development and urban space, from the classic theoretical approaches to the contemporaneous ones. Several approaches consider a lot of fundamental factors in order to develop the innovation process. The main instigative question is the following: all of these approaches have contributed to effective civilizational advances or are we far behind the positive cause-effect relationship between innovation, development and urban space? This question is justified by the fact that several divergences and dysfunctionalities can occur in the urban-rural environment. That means that we have at the same time a creative city, technologically speaking, and an unequal city which is very poor from the civilizational point of view. For the purpose of this apparent paradox, this paper deals with a more intelligent, inclusive and eclectic development process, a more suitable and responsible pattern for citizenship.
Keywords:
innovation; creativity; integrative development; urban space; digital networks; collaborative (i)conomics