The Most Admired Knowledge
City Awards

MAKCi

Is an international consultation exercise aiming to exchange perspectives within the knowledge-based development community. It seeks to reach consensus, identify and recognise those communities around the world who are successfully engaging in formal and systematic development processes under the flag of Knowledge Cities.

Francisco Javier Carrillo
WCI President

This is a brief tour
on three main points of the Awards.

Know our
eight Capital Criteria.

1. Identity capital

Identity Capital in the MAKCi Framework refers to all formal and informal capital elements in the city that have contributed and/or are contributing to determine the city’s identity, its clarity and differentiation (i.e., historic profile, city characterization, belonginess etc).

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eight Capital Criteria.

2. Intelligence capital

Intelligence Capital refers to the city’s systems capacity to sense, make sense of, and respond to external agents and events which are significant to the city’s welfare (i.e. city’s strategic planning agencies, city public/private Future Centres, prospective studies etc).

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eight Capital Criteria.

3. Financial capital

Financial Capital refers to the city’s articulation of monetary denomination of production value dimensions which elicit economic sustainability within the capital system (i.e., macroindicators: investment, GDP, tax system, un/employment etc).

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eight Capital Criteria.

4. Relational capital

Relational Capital refers to the city’s articulation capital that provides cohesion and makes social integration possible (i.e. ethnic diversity, individual health habits, intellectual and cultural competencies, etc).

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eight Capital Criteria.

5. Human Individual capital

Human Capital in its individual base refers to the value-generating capacity of individual citizens that contribute to the city’s system of capitals (i.e. health: biological inheritance, and physical development; employment & education; holistic personal development).

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eight Capital Criteria.

6. Human Collective capital

Human Capital in its collective base refers to the collective cultural fitness and team-based value-generating capacities of all citizens that contribute to the city’s system of capitals (i.e. demographic structure, public health, social welfare, intellectual heritage, civic culture, innovation and entrepreneurial capacities etc).

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eight Capital Criteria.

7. Instrumental-material capital

Instrumental Capital in its tangible base refers to material- based means of production through which other capitals leverage their value-generating capacity. Instrumental MAKCi capital includes a) Natural: existing before the settlement, such as geography, climate, physical landscape, environmental conditions, etc. And b) Infrastructure: created incorporated or adapted by the settlers, such as historical sites and archaeological records, sewage, wire networks, urban configuration, green and recreational areas, Urban sprawl, urban transportation, connectivity, communications and telecommunications, productive, commercial and service infrastructure.

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eight Capital Criteria.

8. Instrumental-knowledge capital

Instrumental Capital in its intangible base refers to knowledge-based means of production through which other capitals leverage their value-generating capacity (i.e. organization and production systems in electronic and non- electronic repositories).

MAKCi in
  • Monterrey
  • Schenzhen
  • Melbourne
  • Matera
  • Istanbul
  • Tallinn
  • Daegu
  • Vienna
  • Arequipa
  • Tenerife
  • Floripa

The MAKCi Awards
2021