Huelva 2007 - Territorial intelligence

Territorial intelligence refers to the knowledge that are linked to the understanding of the territorial structures and dynamics, and of the instruments used by the public and private actors to generate, use and share this knowledge which is in favour of the sustainable territorial development.

Territorial intelligence implies the production of theories and instruments to understand territory, but also the way a society jointly generates and apprehends the available knowledge and applies them to solve its problems.
Different scientific disciplines are involved in the production of territorial knowledge. Consequently, territorial intelligence is a crossroad field of Humanities, Social sciences and Natural sciences (economy, politics, sociology, information and communication sciences, geography, computer science, education science, anthropology, ecology…).

Moreover, and it is a more important point, by focusing on the set of problems linked to the sustainable territorial development, territorial intelligence is also a crossroad field between research activity and action on territory.

In the present knowledge society, territorial intelligence is extremely linked to the evolution of the information and communication sciences. The latter ones make the territorial intelligence development possible and then territorial intelligence creates new stakes for their design and use.