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Rachel Pasher Eijkenaar I enjoyed participating in the Israel Smart Cities Institute conference for local councils mayor candidates. Academic insights were intertwined with concrete proposals for actions that any candidate at the conference could take into consideration, if and when elected. As a participant in a panel discussion at the conference, I hope that I succeeded to create more awareness and interest about the knowledge assets that each municipality possess. I reviewed the importance of knowledge assets, their value and characteristics and explained that there are ways to protect municipal knowledge using the legal tools of intellectual property law, many [...]

Dr. Edna Pasher Founder and Chair of ISCI I have been studying “Knowledge Cities”, later coined “Smart Cities”, for 20 years. As a management consultant my passion has always focused on innovation management. For 40 years I have been supporting managers in renewing organizations to better adapt to the fast changing economic environment so they can become “built to last”. This led me to adopt enthusiastically the concept of the “learning organization” and to join the international community of the pioneers of knowledge and innovation management. Then came the Internet and my network of KM and innovation management pioneers [...]