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The examination of their approaches reveals however that these initiatives are fragmented. The purpose of this paper is to present a multi\u2010dimensional and integrated decision support model for a KC's strategy formulation.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Reference is made to a methodological approach (KnowCis) for the integrated development of a KC, consisting of five main phases and taking into account nine different dimensions. The strategy formulation phase is a particularly complex procedure for any authority (e.g. local government or city's development agency). The reasons for this complexity are related to the amplitude of the KC concept, to the variety of the factors to be considered as well as to the challenge for balancing the needs and interests of different target groups.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The proposed model consists of the following building blocks: identification of the appropriate actions (based on the KnowCis methodology), modeling of the city's current status as a KC (via the development of related indicators), assessment of actions' necessity (based on the indicators' outcomes and through the benchmarking of other successful KCs cases), selection of the most appropriate form for each proposed action (based on their efficiency during the last reference period) and, finally, prioritisation of the proposed actions (based on a multi\u2010criteria approach).<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The main suggestion for future research is the development of an intelligent information system which will incorporate the building blocks of the proposed model.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The originality and value of the paper is that the proposed model can be a really helpful decision support tool for any city which is developing a knowledge\u2010based strategy.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/13673270710819816","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,9,15]],"date-time":"2007-09-15T07:04:30Z","timestamp":1189839870000},"page":"65-86","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["An integrated decision support model for a knowledge city's strategy formulation"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Kostas","family":"Ergazakis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kostas","family":"Metaxiotis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"John","family":"Psarras","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Dimitrios","family":"Askounis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022022020081431400_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Aubert, J.E. 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