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WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENLund University‟s Centre for Risk Assessment & Management. It hosts four research„clusters‟: Cluster for Emergency Response Research (CERR); Cluster for InternationalDisaster Studies (CIDS); Human & Organisational Factors in Risk Management(HOFRIM); and the Leonardo da Vinci Laboratory for Complexity & Systems Thinking.The need for practical rapid response to system crises has been agreed with andsupported by the Swedish Export Agency, centrally concerned with global commodity,asset and knowledge flows and structures. Global regions hosting large cities or exporteconomies are highlighted (Fig. 3.9). It is clear that emergencies, crises or disasters inany of the key nodes transceiving key infrastructure flows require optimal resilience.Training Regions‟ January 2011 business plan focuses on interactions, leaderships andresilience planning and management in relation to such multi-level flow structures,focused upon cities. This perspective echoes a quotation made in 1904 by the famousScottish town planner Patrick Geddes to the effect that „….a city is more than a place inspace; it is a drama in time….‟.Figure 3.9 Global Telecommunications Flows, 201054