UrbanIQ, for smart urban strategies

Mission

UrbanIQ’s mission is to help cities and regions developing smart strategies and policies.

Our approach: Combining analytical rigor with social skills; involving stakeholders

Our strengths: Facilitating knowledge exchange between cities; case study research; training seminars for urban managers; international benchmarking; coaching; moderating complex processes.

Current projects

Creating Silicon Valley in Moscow? UrbanIQ -together with Euricur/Erasmus University- helps the Skolkovo Foundation to reflect on the question how to promote innovation in Skolkovo, Russia's most ambitious science city project.
City and university: UrbanIQ provides support to the EUniverCities network (cities&universities from a number of European cities), on the question how cities and universities can collaborate in a fruitful way
Research and coaching for the Knowcities consortium, a network of 11 medium sized European cities on how to find a future direction in the knowledge based economy, and design effective policies (Interreg project)
Facilitating an international exchange network of cities that are developing campuses and other 'knowledge hotspots' (REDIS urbact project)
Assisting the city of San Sebastian to develop a cluster of medical technology

People

UrbanIQ is managed by two partners: Willem van Winden and Luis de Carvalho

Dr. Willem van Winden (PhD) is a professor in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is an expert in the field of urban and regional economic development and strategies. He was involved in numerous international studies and projects in these fields, assigned by cities in Europe, Asia and Latin America and by organisations including OECD and EU.

Drs. Luis de Carvalho (MSc) is an economist with specialization in the fields of urban management, regional development and economic geography. He is at UrbanIQ, but he is also senior researcher at the EURICUR, where he has been carrying out different studies in European, Latin American and Asian cities.