Territorial intelligence and the three components of territorial governance

Globalization processes, on the one hand, and political decentralization, on the other, have increased the complexity of decision making processes on a territory, and have demanded updating the three basic components of territorial governance: cognitive, i.e., the way of thinking and understanding the territory and, as a result, ter-ritorial development; socio-political, i.e. the way in which abilities, responsibilities and resources are negotiated in the new decentralized political map; and technological-organizational, that is, the networks of actors and tools to act on the territory. This communication considers that the emergence of the concept of territorial intelligence takes place in parallel with these transformations in the different dimensions of territorial governance in the tran-sition from the “information society ” to the “knowledge society”. In the first section the concept of territorial governance is presented. Its three main components – cognitive, socio-political, and organizational-technological – are presented in the second section. The third section analyses the way in which these three components of territorial governance are affected by the characteristics of the knowledge society. As a conclusion, in the fourth section it is claimed that the development of territorial intelligence is a consequence of the transformations un-dergone by the different dimensions of territorial governance in a context of globalization and political decen-tralization in the current knowledge society. Keywords