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Hans Schaffers - Smart Cities and the Future Internet: Towards Collaboration Models for Open and User Driven Innovation Ecosystems

by FIA2010 on Dec 31, 2010

Hans Schaffers - Smart Cities and the Future Internet: Towards Collaboration Models for Open and User Driven Innovation Ecosystems

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This paper discusses strategies to empower three constituencies (Future Internet, Living Labs, Smart Cities) to work together in establishing smart city urban innovation ecosystems. In doing so, these constituencies will share and jointly exploit their innovation assets and the opportunities of their key methodologies for research, innovation and valorization, such as Future Internet experimentation and Living labs open and user driven innovation, for the benefit of Smart Cities innovation and socio-economic development. A city can be defined as ‘smart’ when investments in human and social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory governance (Caragliu et al, 2009). The view we are proposing adds the characteristic of Smart Cities to be environments of open and user driven innovation that are continuously open for renewal and change.