Na era do conhecimento, o rápido progresso tecnológico, especialmente no campo das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, é visto como o principal aliado para responder às crescentes crises ambientais e socioeconômicas urbanas. Nesse contexto, as cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis são aquelas que empregam tecnologia e inovação para melhorar a qualidade de vida de seus cidadãos e a eficiência dos serviços, buscando o desenvolvimento urbano sustentável. Na prática, entretanto, diversos desafios se impõem às cidades que buscam tornar-se inteligentes e sustentáveis. Para agregar as dimensões de inteligência e sustentabilidade, as cidades precisam de soluções desenhadas localmente e planejamento urbano estratégico integrado e equilibrado. Um modelo estratégico aderente a esses requisitos é o Desenvolvimento Urbano Baseado no Conhecimento (DUBC), que articula quatro domínios de desenvolvimento baseado no conhecimento (econômico, social, espacial e institucional) para um processo de transformação urbana de longo prazo, no contexto da nova economia do conhecimento e da competitividade global. Por meio de revisão de literatura, este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir os principais aspectos conceituais e de aplicação do DUBC como uma abordagem estratégica para a promoção de cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis. Os resultados indicam que o DUBC pode contribuir ao oferecer uma abordagem multidimensional e integrada para o planejamento urbano estratégico que inclui a implementação de tecnologias urbanas, desenvolvidas por processos endógenos de inovação e voltadas a um desenvolvimento urbano verdadeiramente inteligente e sustentável.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to verify how distributed cognition enhances collaborative problem-solving in the context of projects.Design/methodology/approach: Using qualitative research and in-depth interviews, a sample of 32 project managers with experience in traditional and agile methods acting in Brazil and internationally participated in the research process. The analysis process, utilising coding techniques, involved stages: open, axial, coding and selective coding. These stages encompassed the evaluation of categories based on a hierarchy, in order to determine an appropriate level of abstraction that properly explains theoretical findings.Findings: The results indicate that distributed team cognition is significant for collaborative problem-solving. The data from the interviews allowed the proposal of a model of cognition, and the identification of the elements that support it.Practical implications: Understand how aspects of distributed team cognition can impact the behaviours of the project professional and contribute to problem-solving in the project environment.Originality/value: The elements observed affects the collaborative problem-solving by presenting a model of distributed cognition, which is composed by directed communication, collective interaction, trust building and collaborative behaviour.

During the last couple of decades, making cities smarter and more sustainable has become an important urban agenda. In this perspective, knowledge-based development is seen as a strategic approach for cities seeking to thrive through innovation and resilience. Accomplishing a knowledge-based development agenda is, however, challenging, and cities need support mechanisms to effectively develop and then incorporate such agendas into their decision-making processes. This study investigates the role of international events as one of these support mechanisms for the development and implementation of local knowledge-based development agendas. The study aims to address how international events contribute to the local knowledge-based development efforts. This study takes the Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS) series as the exemplar international event, and the Brazilian city of Bento Gonçalves as the case study city. The methodological approach of the study consists of semi-structured interview-based qualitative analysis and case study investigations. The findings of the study revealed the following: (a) international events can be fundamental drivers of local knowledge-based agendas; (b) these events contribute to host cities’ development, especially at an institutional level, by generating outcomes such as engagement in cooperation networks and leveraging local actors’ influence on the development process; and (c) KCWS was instrumental in placing the local university as a protagonist of the knowledge-based development movement of Bento Gonçalves. The study reported in this paper provides invaluable insights for cities seeking to use international knowledge-based development events for smart and sustainable city formation.