Scaling has recently found its way into the academic discourse. However, the term has been
used inconsistently and mixed up with other terms such as growth. To overcome these …

Contemporary urbanization differs from historical patterns of urban growth in terms of scale,
rate, location, form, and function. This review discusses the characteristics of contemporary …

Abstract In the Urban Anthropocene, how to meet the demands of growing urban
populations on limited urban land is a key global challenge. Unreasonable urban planning …

The current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses an
unprecedented global health and economic threat to interconnected human societies. Until …

One the one hand, complex technologies offer substantial economic benefits, and on the
other, they are difficult to invent and to imitate, and they refuse a fast dissemination. This two …

Despite the increasing importance of cities in human societies, our ability to understand
them scientifically and manage them in practice has remained limited. The greatest …

This article investigates by means of US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent data
whether technological relatedness at the city level was a crucial driving force behind …

The relationship between collaborative innovation and innovation efficiency has attracted
the attention of researchers in recent years. However, few studies have integrated intra …

Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now
living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of …

Although most of wealth and innovation have been the result of human interaction and
cooperation, we are not yet able to quantitatively predict the spatial distributions of three …