Introduction

This chapter is a follow-up to Chapter 4. The purpose here is to illustrate, in the particular case of the city of Monterrey, the Generic Capitals System introduced there. The intention is that this list may help other cities develop a complete and consistent set of indicators, within a coherent and practical framework. This chapter contains mainly the hierarchical list of capitals or social knowledge accounts for Monterrey. Whereas this is an independent exercise, it makes reference to the formal initiative to develop Monterrey as a KC. The Project Monterrey: International City of Knowledge is one of five strategic initiatives of the 2004 2009 Nuevo Le n State Government Administration, http://www.nl.gob.mx/. The Project s objectives and main lines of action are described in the Project s Manifesto ( Monterrey: International City of Knowledge, CORPES, 2005), the Project s webpage http://www.mtycic.nl.gob.mx/index.html, and the document describing the five strategic initiatives, downloadable from http://www.nl.gob.mx/?P = intro_cd_conocimiento.

The Monterrey Capital System structure and definitions follow the Generic Capital System described in Chapter 4. This chapter includes version 1.0 of the taxonomy of knowledge capital accounts for Monterrey. At the uppermost levels, it follows exactly the generic structure described in Chapter 4. At the lowermost levels, it gets increasingly asymmetric and particular, just as each city s capital system is expected to do. Therefore, the levels of disaggregation are different for different capitals up to the eighth level, for example, in 1.1.1.2.3.4.2 Technological: comparative...