This document discusses the evolution of territorial systems of innovation from 1st generation clusters to 2nd generation regional systems.
1) 1st generation systems were cluster-based, focused on physical proximity within industries to reduce costs through cooperation and knowledge spillovers. They included traditional industrial districts and newer technology districts.
2) 2nd generation systems recognized innovation as a systemic process involving regional networks of actors beyond clusters. These regional systems of innovation integrated universities, companies, and government in knowledge generation and application through alliances like research partnerships and technology transfer organizations.
3) The shift expanded innovation drivers from internal R&D to open networks across a region that facilitated collaborative learning, commercialization, and new knowledge development.
CeBIT 2011 is the world's largest and most important ICT conference, held in Hannover, Germany. It attracts 350,000 visitors from 100 countries and has connections to over 2 billion media contacts and 8 million business contacts. CeBIT is organized into 4 main platforms - CeBITpro focuses on professional ICT solutions for business, CeBITgov focuses on solutions for the public sector, CeBITlife focuses on consumer ICT products, and CeBITlab focuses on research and development. CeBIT aims to connect ICT users with providers and support dialogue on emerging technologies and solutions.
This document summarizes a presentation on tussles in the future internet given by Burkhard Stiller on behalf of SESERV. It discusses how the future internet ecosystem involves tensions between social and economic interests. A conceptual structure is presented showing how economic and social theories relate to future internet architecture principles. Key societal themes for the future internet are identified, including issues around governance, privacy and participation. Finally, recommendations are made for technology makers, providers and policymakers to better align conflicting stakeholder interests in the future internet.
1) The document discusses trends in information and communication technology (ICT), including that ICT is becoming more efficient, multifunctional, and allows for more active interaction by users.
2) It notes that while ICT improves independence and accessibility for disabled people, standard digital services are often inaccessible, risking their exclusion from society.
3) The document considers whether universally designed ICT that is accessible for as many people as possible is realistic, or if assistive technologies and lowering ambitions are necessary. It discusses different approaches to introducing universal design.
The document discusses the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) initiative, which aims to create shared infrastructure and services to automatically personalize interfaces and materials for those with disabilities or other access barriers. The GPII would introduce a paradigm shift by enabling devices to instantly adapt to each user's needs, reducing costs and increasing accessibility. It would provide an "open floor" for stakeholders to collaborate, promote commercial and built-in accessibility globally, and help "defragment" markets. Components may include personalization profiles, automatic configuration, and awareness programs. Security of personal data and server infrastructure is important. The GPII is an opportunity to fundamentally advance accessibility internationally through open-source tools and standards.
Socio-Economic Aware Design of Future Network Technology (Y.FNsocioeconomic)ictseserv
The document summarizes a presentation given at an ITU workshop in Kampala, Uganda on April 2, 2012. The presentation discusses the goal of designing future network technologies with socioeconomic awareness. It proposes a structure for a new ITU recommendation called "Y.FNsocioeconomic" to provide methods for achieving socioeconomic design goals and objectives outlined in another ITU recommendation (Y.3001). One such method discussed is tussle analysis, which involves identifying stakeholders, their potential conflicts (tussles), and how those tussles may evolve as technologies are adopted and configured. Bandwidth sharing is provided as an example case of applying tussle analysis.
This document provides an agenda for the ImMediaTe 2nd cluster event taking place in Amsterdam on September 23-24, 2010. The event will focus on valorization and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in information and communication technologies and digital media.
The morning of September 24 will include presentations and a panel discussion on perspectives of IPR in business for creative talent. The afternoon will consist of interactive coaching sessions for companies focused on both legal/theoretical and business aspects of IPR. The event will take place in conjunction with the PICNIC 2010 conference, allowing participants to attend other relevant sessions.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document summarizes a presentation on smart cities as innovation ecosystems sustained by the future internet. Some key points:
1) Smart cities are not yet a reality, but rather an urban development strategy and vision focused on empowering citizens and creating an "urban innovation ecology."
2) The FIREBALL project aims to bring together cities, living labs, and future internet stakeholders to explore how open innovation and user participation can support experimentation and adoption of future internet technologies.
3) Case studies of smarter cities show examples of technology districts, living lab initiatives, infrastructure development, and efforts to engage citizens. However, challenges remain around skills gaps, funding, and measuring impact.
CeBIT 2011 is the world's largest and most important ICT conference, held in Hannover, Germany. It attracts 350,000 visitors from 100 countries and has connections to over 2 billion media contacts and 8 million business contacts. CeBIT is organized into 4 main platforms - CeBITpro focuses on professional ICT solutions for business, CeBITgov focuses on solutions for the public sector, CeBITlife focuses on consumer ICT products, and CeBITlab focuses on research and development. CeBIT aims to connect ICT users with providers and support dialogue on emerging technologies and solutions.
This document summarizes a presentation on tussles in the future internet given by Burkhard Stiller on behalf of SESERV. It discusses how the future internet ecosystem involves tensions between social and economic interests. A conceptual structure is presented showing how economic and social theories relate to future internet architecture principles. Key societal themes for the future internet are identified, including issues around governance, privacy and participation. Finally, recommendations are made for technology makers, providers and policymakers to better align conflicting stakeholder interests in the future internet.
1) The document discusses trends in information and communication technology (ICT), including that ICT is becoming more efficient, multifunctional, and allows for more active interaction by users.
2) It notes that while ICT improves independence and accessibility for disabled people, standard digital services are often inaccessible, risking their exclusion from society.
3) The document considers whether universally designed ICT that is accessible for as many people as possible is realistic, or if assistive technologies and lowering ambitions are necessary. It discusses different approaches to introducing universal design.
The document discusses the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) initiative, which aims to create shared infrastructure and services to automatically personalize interfaces and materials for those with disabilities or other access barriers. The GPII would introduce a paradigm shift by enabling devices to instantly adapt to each user's needs, reducing costs and increasing accessibility. It would provide an "open floor" for stakeholders to collaborate, promote commercial and built-in accessibility globally, and help "defragment" markets. Components may include personalization profiles, automatic configuration, and awareness programs. Security of personal data and server infrastructure is important. The GPII is an opportunity to fundamentally advance accessibility internationally through open-source tools and standards.
Socio-Economic Aware Design of Future Network Technology (Y.FNsocioeconomic)ictseserv
The document summarizes a presentation given at an ITU workshop in Kampala, Uganda on April 2, 2012. The presentation discusses the goal of designing future network technologies with socioeconomic awareness. It proposes a structure for a new ITU recommendation called "Y.FNsocioeconomic" to provide methods for achieving socioeconomic design goals and objectives outlined in another ITU recommendation (Y.3001). One such method discussed is tussle analysis, which involves identifying stakeholders, their potential conflicts (tussles), and how those tussles may evolve as technologies are adopted and configured. Bandwidth sharing is provided as an example case of applying tussle analysis.
This document provides an agenda for the ImMediaTe 2nd cluster event taking place in Amsterdam on September 23-24, 2010. The event will focus on valorization and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in information and communication technologies and digital media.
The morning of September 24 will include presentations and a panel discussion on perspectives of IPR in business for creative talent. The afternoon will consist of interactive coaching sessions for companies focused on both legal/theoretical and business aspects of IPR. The event will take place in conjunction with the PICNIC 2010 conference, allowing participants to attend other relevant sessions.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document summarizes a presentation on smart cities as innovation ecosystems sustained by the future internet. Some key points:
1) Smart cities are not yet a reality, but rather an urban development strategy and vision focused on empowering citizens and creating an "urban innovation ecology."
2) The FIREBALL project aims to bring together cities, living labs, and future internet stakeholders to explore how open innovation and user participation can support experimentation and adoption of future internet technologies.
3) Case studies of smarter cities show examples of technology districts, living lab initiatives, infrastructure development, and efforts to engage citizens. However, challenges remain around skills gaps, funding, and measuring impact.
Christian Katzenbach
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Young European Researchers Seminar on New Media Studies
Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw, November 17, 2009.
Icons by Melih Bilgil, http://www.picol.org/, under CC BY-SA
The document summarizes a workshop on common assets for smart cities' living labs innovation. It discusses identifying and characterizing common assets that can be shared to build collaborative innovation ecosystems for smart cities. Such assets include testbeds, living lab facilities, user communities, technologies, methodologies, and open data. The workshop agenda includes presentations on frameworks for managing common assets from various European projects and an open discussion.
This document discusses realizing smart city ecosystems through smart services and smart citizen networks. It describes viewing smart cities from the perspective of an ICT innovation research center and living lab, and catalyzing their impact. Smart citizen networks are discussed in the context of technological trends, community trends, and networked citizen dashboard services that can provide real-time data on energy use, traffic, water management, and more. Indirect business models for smart cities are also addressed.
ENoLL (Ana Garcia, ENoLL Office) was invited to participate in the workshop on Open place-making: A New Paradigm for Citizen Enablement in the framework of the international Conference on Future Internet for New Century Cities held in Zaragoza, Spain on November 8th - 10th, 2012. The workshop was organised by Zaragoza Living Lab, long-standing member of the European Network of Living Labs from the second Wave.
Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart Cities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. DG INFSO. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
This document discusses key characteristics of modern innovation. It notes that innovation is now distributed and diverse across geographic centers and models. Innovation ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and multidirectional. Corporate R&D has become global and strategic. There is an increasing importance placed on intangible capital like knowledge over tangible assets. This has led to a rise in value-intensive services and knowledge-based innovation. Globalization is an important force as infrastructure, talent, and markets become more interconnected worldwide.
Fing was created in 2000 by entrepreneurs and experts to promote innovation in digital services and uses. It is a network, think tank, and resource for innovators working at the intersection of technology, business, arts, and social change. Fing aims to play a pivotal role in emerging ideas and projects, mobilize stakeholders around future technology, and facilitate collaboration between users, researchers, and entrepreneurs. It achieves this through programs that bring together diverse stakeholders to share ideas and stimulate innovative action. Fing also networks internationally with startups, researchers, and institutions to accelerate innovative projects and open innovation. Additionally, Fing reports on emerging ideas, technologies, and trends.
Fing was created in 2000 by entrepreneurs and experts to detect, foster, and promote digital innovation in services and uses. Working at the crossroads of technology, business, arts, and social change, Fing is a network, think tank, and resource for innovators. Fing has over 160 members and partners and a staff of 20 that work on programs around future challenges through think tanks, open innovation, and intelligence/foresight.
The Future Internet PPP and the CONCORD Project, Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL President, European Parliament, 3rd Innovation Summit, OPEN DAYS, October 11th, 2011
Intelligent cities 3 - Technologies for virtual environmentsNicos Komninos
This document discusses technologies for intelligent cities, focusing on broadband network technologies and data/content management technologies. It outlines various technologies for data collection, processing, analysis, and visualization. These include intelligence technologies like data mining and analytics; content management systems like Joomla and WordPress; collaboration technologies like Dreamweaver, Python, and Java; and visualization technologies like panoramics and 3D modeling. The goal is to enable virtual innovation environments through these digital technologies.
1. The document proposes a strategic research agenda to guide urban research in Europe over the coming decades.
2. It identifies four key pillars of research: society, mobility, ecology, and the economy/innovation. Under each pillar are strategic research issues and "urban images" or future city scenarios for 2050.
3. The agenda outlines instruments like joint projects, data sharing networks, and experimental demonstration projects to coordinate urban research across Europe. The goal is to help cities meet challenges of trends like population growth, globalization, and sustainability.
Acting on the Future: Practical Foresight Implementation in CanadaWorldFuture2015
The document discusses the need for governments to implement foresight functions to help anticipate future challenges and opportunities in an increasingly complex world. It provides examples of foresight implementation in different countries. While Canada has a central foresight agency, most government departments and agencies do not have formal foresight functions. There is no network to support collaboration between the existing foresight activities, which tend to be isolated. The document concludes that Canada has a long way to go to develop a robust foresight regime across government.
Lecture 4 discusses strategies for developing intelligent cities, focusing on sustaining innovation in city sectors, knowledge-intensive districts and clusters, improving infrastructure and utilities, and enhancing quality of life. Examples are provided of initiatives in Singapore to develop priority innovation sectors, Cleveland's OneCommunity broadband network, and Stockholm's open access fiber network model called Stokab.
Intelligent cities: A new planning paradigm. 15 years research at UrenioNicos Komninos
This document discusses the concept of intelligent or smart cities as a new urban planning paradigm. It provides background on the rise of literature around intelligent cities since 2001 and defines intelligent cities from several perspectives. It then outlines the theoretical research conducted at URENIO, including models of intelligent city structure, operation, and strategic planning. Applied research at URENIO is presented, including the development of software applications and projects implementing intelligent city solutions.
Intelligent cities 5 - What makes cities smart?Nicos Komninos
I. This document discusses the concept of spatial intelligence of cities and how it relates to intelligent and smart cities. Spatial intelligence refers to the informational and cognitive processes that characterize intelligent cities, including information collection/processing, real-time alerts, forecasting, learning, and distributed problem solving.
II. The document outlines three types of spatial intelligence that cities can develop: orchestration intelligence through organized innovation workflows; amplification intelligence by strengthening innovation ecosystem components; and instrumentation intelligence using future internet/embedded systems.
III. The document concludes by discussing how the research group URENIO plans intelligent cities by describing city/district challenges, corresponding innovation ecosystems, digital spaces/applications, and integrating these layers through intelligent city platforms.
This document provides an overview of innovation systems and lessons learned. It discusses key concepts around innovation including the differences between invention and innovation. It describes national systems of innovation and how they are conceptualized. Modes of knowledge production such as Mode 1 and Mode 2 are examined. The Triple Helix model of university-industry-government interactions is also summarized. The document concludes by looking at science and technology perspectives in development policy.
1. The document discusses theories of innovation from early 20th century economists like Schumpeter to more modern concepts like open innovation and national systems of innovation.
2. It describes how views have shifted from linear models of innovation to an understanding that innovation is an iterative process influenced by both supply and demand factors.
3. Recent research emphasizes that innovation occurs through networks and collaboration beyond firm boundaries, including interactions between businesses, universities, and other organizations.
Chapter 3 Micro Foundations of Firm’s Advantage – Dynamic Capabil.docxchristinemaritza
Chapter 3: Micro Foundations of Firm’s Advantage – Dynamic Capabilities View
In a previous chapter, we learnt about resource-based view (RBV), knowledge-based view (KBV) and core competence view (CCV) hypotheses. A major limitation of these hypotheses is that they are not designed for the VUCA world – the world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Therefore, they do not consider the entropy factors – the factors that act as disruptive forces in highly dynamic markets. In this chapter, we will examine three of the most important entry factors:
· mainstreaming of non-consumers, i.e. the rise of new groups of customers served using alternative sets of resources, knowledge and/or core competencies.
· political power play, i.e. the role of non-market – often government-supported - factors in enabling competing firms to develop alternative sets of resources, knowledge and/or core competencies.
· globalization games, i.e. the shifts in the advantages of different national markets, and as a consequence of the firms having investments in those markets.
Micro foundations of firm’s advantage refer to the structures, processes and behaviors that help firms navigate the VUCA world. Development of appropriate structures, processes and behaviors that are in tune with the VUCA world allows firms to be dynamic in their capability. Dynamic capability is the capability for recognizing and responding or adapting to significant market change. Dynamic capability view (DCV) hypothesis of strategic action is intended to help firms stay relevant and is of strategic advantage for larger corporates and their stakeholders.
In this chapter, we will also learn about different types of marketplaces, and how to classify these marketplaces using the niche density (number of firms in a marketplace) and carrying capacity (size of the market) approaches. It is important to recognize the link between the concept of dynamic capability and the type of marketplaces. By operating in different types of marketplaces across different business divisions or regional geographies, the firms may be able to gain experience and develop structures, processes, and behaviors to not only survive but also thrive in a VUCA world.
Exhibit 3.x illustrates the evolution of DCV, based on the refinements of RBV, KBV and CCV. KBV distinguishes capabilities (and knowledge-base of the capabilities) from resources. CCV distinguishes core competencies (creative integration and innovative combination of knowledge) from ordinary capabilities (articulation and replication of knowledge). DCV distinguishes transforming capabilities, from core competencies.
Exhibit 3.x: Refinements in RBV, KBV and CCV Bring DCV in Perspective
Entropy Mechanisms under Dynamic Environments
We need a significant revision in the original elitist assumptions of the RBV, KBV and CCV, to account for the success of firms in face of the environmental crisis and dynamism in the 21st century. R ...
Open innovation is not a new phenomena. New online social tools increase the scope of opportunity and of potential contributions. A presentation by Jean-Yves Huwart, CEO of Global Enterprise.
The document discusses different sources of innovation. It states that innovation can arise from individuals, universities, government laboratories, private non-profit organizations, and firms. Firms are well-suited for innovation as they have greater resources than individuals. The document also notes that creativity underlies innovation and is transformed into innovative outcomes through various components of the innovation system, including individuals, firms, universities, and government-funded research.
Christian Katzenbach
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Young European Researchers Seminar on New Media Studies
Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw, November 17, 2009.
Icons by Melih Bilgil, http://www.picol.org/, under CC BY-SA
The document summarizes a workshop on common assets for smart cities' living labs innovation. It discusses identifying and characterizing common assets that can be shared to build collaborative innovation ecosystems for smart cities. Such assets include testbeds, living lab facilities, user communities, technologies, methodologies, and open data. The workshop agenda includes presentations on frameworks for managing common assets from various European projects and an open discussion.
This document discusses realizing smart city ecosystems through smart services and smart citizen networks. It describes viewing smart cities from the perspective of an ICT innovation research center and living lab, and catalyzing their impact. Smart citizen networks are discussed in the context of technological trends, community trends, and networked citizen dashboard services that can provide real-time data on energy use, traffic, water management, and more. Indirect business models for smart cities are also addressed.
ENoLL (Ana Garcia, ENoLL Office) was invited to participate in the workshop on Open place-making: A New Paradigm for Citizen Enablement in the framework of the international Conference on Future Internet for New Century Cities held in Zaragoza, Spain on November 8th - 10th, 2012. The workshop was organised by Zaragoza Living Lab, long-standing member of the European Network of Living Labs from the second Wave.
Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart Cities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. DG INFSO. Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
This document discusses key characteristics of modern innovation. It notes that innovation is now distributed and diverse across geographic centers and models. Innovation ecosystems are dynamic, complex, and multidirectional. Corporate R&D has become global and strategic. There is an increasing importance placed on intangible capital like knowledge over tangible assets. This has led to a rise in value-intensive services and knowledge-based innovation. Globalization is an important force as infrastructure, talent, and markets become more interconnected worldwide.
Fing was created in 2000 by entrepreneurs and experts to promote innovation in digital services and uses. It is a network, think tank, and resource for innovators working at the intersection of technology, business, arts, and social change. Fing aims to play a pivotal role in emerging ideas and projects, mobilize stakeholders around future technology, and facilitate collaboration between users, researchers, and entrepreneurs. It achieves this through programs that bring together diverse stakeholders to share ideas and stimulate innovative action. Fing also networks internationally with startups, researchers, and institutions to accelerate innovative projects and open innovation. Additionally, Fing reports on emerging ideas, technologies, and trends.
Fing was created in 2000 by entrepreneurs and experts to detect, foster, and promote digital innovation in services and uses. Working at the crossroads of technology, business, arts, and social change, Fing is a network, think tank, and resource for innovators. Fing has over 160 members and partners and a staff of 20 that work on programs around future challenges through think tanks, open innovation, and intelligence/foresight.
The Future Internet PPP and the CONCORD Project, Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL President, European Parliament, 3rd Innovation Summit, OPEN DAYS, October 11th, 2011
Intelligent cities 3 - Technologies for virtual environmentsNicos Komninos
This document discusses technologies for intelligent cities, focusing on broadband network technologies and data/content management technologies. It outlines various technologies for data collection, processing, analysis, and visualization. These include intelligence technologies like data mining and analytics; content management systems like Joomla and WordPress; collaboration technologies like Dreamweaver, Python, and Java; and visualization technologies like panoramics and 3D modeling. The goal is to enable virtual innovation environments through these digital technologies.
1. The document proposes a strategic research agenda to guide urban research in Europe over the coming decades.
2. It identifies four key pillars of research: society, mobility, ecology, and the economy/innovation. Under each pillar are strategic research issues and "urban images" or future city scenarios for 2050.
3. The agenda outlines instruments like joint projects, data sharing networks, and experimental demonstration projects to coordinate urban research across Europe. The goal is to help cities meet challenges of trends like population growth, globalization, and sustainability.
Acting on the Future: Practical Foresight Implementation in CanadaWorldFuture2015
The document discusses the need for governments to implement foresight functions to help anticipate future challenges and opportunities in an increasingly complex world. It provides examples of foresight implementation in different countries. While Canada has a central foresight agency, most government departments and agencies do not have formal foresight functions. There is no network to support collaboration between the existing foresight activities, which tend to be isolated. The document concludes that Canada has a long way to go to develop a robust foresight regime across government.
Lecture 4 discusses strategies for developing intelligent cities, focusing on sustaining innovation in city sectors, knowledge-intensive districts and clusters, improving infrastructure and utilities, and enhancing quality of life. Examples are provided of initiatives in Singapore to develop priority innovation sectors, Cleveland's OneCommunity broadband network, and Stockholm's open access fiber network model called Stokab.
Intelligent cities: A new planning paradigm. 15 years research at UrenioNicos Komninos
This document discusses the concept of intelligent or smart cities as a new urban planning paradigm. It provides background on the rise of literature around intelligent cities since 2001 and defines intelligent cities from several perspectives. It then outlines the theoretical research conducted at URENIO, including models of intelligent city structure, operation, and strategic planning. Applied research at URENIO is presented, including the development of software applications and projects implementing intelligent city solutions.
Intelligent cities 5 - What makes cities smart?Nicos Komninos
I. This document discusses the concept of spatial intelligence of cities and how it relates to intelligent and smart cities. Spatial intelligence refers to the informational and cognitive processes that characterize intelligent cities, including information collection/processing, real-time alerts, forecasting, learning, and distributed problem solving.
II. The document outlines three types of spatial intelligence that cities can develop: orchestration intelligence through organized innovation workflows; amplification intelligence by strengthening innovation ecosystem components; and instrumentation intelligence using future internet/embedded systems.
III. The document concludes by discussing how the research group URENIO plans intelligent cities by describing city/district challenges, corresponding innovation ecosystems, digital spaces/applications, and integrating these layers through intelligent city platforms.
This document provides an overview of innovation systems and lessons learned. It discusses key concepts around innovation including the differences between invention and innovation. It describes national systems of innovation and how they are conceptualized. Modes of knowledge production such as Mode 1 and Mode 2 are examined. The Triple Helix model of university-industry-government interactions is also summarized. The document concludes by looking at science and technology perspectives in development policy.
1. The document discusses theories of innovation from early 20th century economists like Schumpeter to more modern concepts like open innovation and national systems of innovation.
2. It describes how views have shifted from linear models of innovation to an understanding that innovation is an iterative process influenced by both supply and demand factors.
3. Recent research emphasizes that innovation occurs through networks and collaboration beyond firm boundaries, including interactions between businesses, universities, and other organizations.
Chapter 3 Micro Foundations of Firm’s Advantage – Dynamic Capabil.docxchristinemaritza
Chapter 3: Micro Foundations of Firm’s Advantage – Dynamic Capabilities View
In a previous chapter, we learnt about resource-based view (RBV), knowledge-based view (KBV) and core competence view (CCV) hypotheses. A major limitation of these hypotheses is that they are not designed for the VUCA world – the world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Therefore, they do not consider the entropy factors – the factors that act as disruptive forces in highly dynamic markets. In this chapter, we will examine three of the most important entry factors:
· mainstreaming of non-consumers, i.e. the rise of new groups of customers served using alternative sets of resources, knowledge and/or core competencies.
· political power play, i.e. the role of non-market – often government-supported - factors in enabling competing firms to develop alternative sets of resources, knowledge and/or core competencies.
· globalization games, i.e. the shifts in the advantages of different national markets, and as a consequence of the firms having investments in those markets.
Micro foundations of firm’s advantage refer to the structures, processes and behaviors that help firms navigate the VUCA world. Development of appropriate structures, processes and behaviors that are in tune with the VUCA world allows firms to be dynamic in their capability. Dynamic capability is the capability for recognizing and responding or adapting to significant market change. Dynamic capability view (DCV) hypothesis of strategic action is intended to help firms stay relevant and is of strategic advantage for larger corporates and their stakeholders.
In this chapter, we will also learn about different types of marketplaces, and how to classify these marketplaces using the niche density (number of firms in a marketplace) and carrying capacity (size of the market) approaches. It is important to recognize the link between the concept of dynamic capability and the type of marketplaces. By operating in different types of marketplaces across different business divisions or regional geographies, the firms may be able to gain experience and develop structures, processes, and behaviors to not only survive but also thrive in a VUCA world.
Exhibit 3.x illustrates the evolution of DCV, based on the refinements of RBV, KBV and CCV. KBV distinguishes capabilities (and knowledge-base of the capabilities) from resources. CCV distinguishes core competencies (creative integration and innovative combination of knowledge) from ordinary capabilities (articulation and replication of knowledge). DCV distinguishes transforming capabilities, from core competencies.
Exhibit 3.x: Refinements in RBV, KBV and CCV Bring DCV in Perspective
Entropy Mechanisms under Dynamic Environments
We need a significant revision in the original elitist assumptions of the RBV, KBV and CCV, to account for the success of firms in face of the environmental crisis and dynamism in the 21st century. R ...
Open innovation is not a new phenomena. New online social tools increase the scope of opportunity and of potential contributions. A presentation by Jean-Yves Huwart, CEO of Global Enterprise.
The document discusses different sources of innovation. It states that innovation can arise from individuals, universities, government laboratories, private non-profit organizations, and firms. Firms are well-suited for innovation as they have greater resources than individuals. The document also notes that creativity underlies innovation and is transformed into innovative outcomes through various components of the innovation system, including individuals, firms, universities, and government-funded research.
Keynote #TCI2019 Koenraad Debackere - General Manager KU Leuve, A longstandin...TCI Network
Flanders has a long history as a cluster cradle, developing clusters in fields like biotech, chemistry, digital technologies, energy, and advanced manufacturing over the past 30 years. Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions that benefit from agglomeration effects. They create ecosystems for innovation by bringing together suppliers, customers, universities, and government agencies. Clusters foster growth through interaction effects as collaboration between organizations leads to knowledge spillovers and new ideas. They also attract talent by becoming talent magnets within their fields. Flanders has successfully built clusters through consistent government support programs and instruments that bring together the different players within a triple helix of government, industry, and academia.
Chapter 2 Schilling 2017 Sources of Innovationahmdirvan
Individuals, firms, universities, government laboratories, and private non-profit organizations can all be sources of innovation. Firms are well-suited for innovation activities because they have greater resources than individuals and a system to direct those resources. Innovation can come from individuals, either as lone inventors or users designing solutions to meet their own needs. Universities and government laboratories also contribute to innovation through research efforts. Regional clusters can spur innovation through proximity that facilitates knowledge exchange, as seen in technology hubs like Silicon Valley.
The book presents a series of articles on hidden innovation in different sectors and with different implications both for public policy and for social and organizational dynamics.
Individuals, firms, universities, government laboratories, and private non-profit organizations can all be sources of innovation. The document discusses each of these sources in detail. It explains that individuals can be lone inventors or users developing solutions to their own needs. Firms have greater resources than individuals and incentives to develop new products. Universities and government laboratories perform basic research, while firms focus more on applied research and development. Private non-profits also contribute to innovation through research and development.
This document discusses different sources of innovation. It begins by explaining that innovation can come from individuals, universities, government labs, non-profits, and firms. Firms are well-suited for innovation due to greater resources. The document then examines creativity and how different parts of the innovation system transform ideas into outcomes. Individual and organizational creativity are discussed. Research and development by firms, universities, government, and non-profits are also sources of innovation. Technology clusters and spillovers that spread knowledge across organizations are reviewed as ways collaboration drives innovation.
This document discusses different sources of innovation. It explains that innovation can come from individuals, firms, universities, government laboratories, and private non-profit organizations. It goes on to describe how creativity underlies innovation and how different components of the innovation system, like individuals, firms, universities, and government-funded research, transform creativity into innovative outcomes. The document also discusses how firms conduct basic and applied research as well as development activities, and how universities and non-profits contribute to innovation.
The integration between innovation and business is a key factor in competitiveness between organizations. That is, innovation applied to a business makes no sense if not considered as an integral tool for the processes of the organization. Companies should therefore adopt a policy where innovation plays a strategic role in the design of business models to become lean, effective and competitive entities (Moraleda, 2004). The objective of this paper is to show the importance of innovation within companies, identifying the concept, the various models that different entities might adopt in order to develop better processes of innovation, as well as indicators that represent innovation at global and national levels in order to develop strategies that lead to an increase in competitiveness. For this work the method used was a bibliographical review of relevant articles from a range of authors was conducted.
This document discusses innovation as the main driver of ICT cluster development and renewal. It defines what a cluster is and provides examples like Silicon Valley. Clusters provide access to human capital, information, and specialized suppliers. Key success factors for developing ICT clusters include a strong innovation base, large firms, infrastructure, access to markets and capital. Soft factors like entrepreneurial culture and partnerships are also important. Public policies can support clusters by building technology parks, incubators, and funding R&D. The document emphasizes that innovation through product development and research is vital for dynamic ICT clusters to remain competitive.
This document summarizes a lecture on the history of thinking about innovation. It covers perspectives from the 1930s to present. Key topics discussed include Schumpeter's view of innovation and entrepreneurship, the development of R&D departments in the 1950s, innovation diffusion models from the 1960s, national innovation strategies in the 1970s, innovation as a professional discipline in the 1980s, open and collaborative innovation systems of the 1990s/2000s. The lecture provides an overview of major theories and case studies within the evolution of innovation management thinking.
1) Global Networked Entrepreneurship proposes linking the world's technopoles (technology hubs) for shared prosperity through international collaboration. Traditionally, research focused on fostering wealth and jobs regionally, but emphasis is now shifting toward global linkages.
2) GNE involves linking talent, technology, capital, and business expertise globally through networks. This allows problems to be solved faster and mistakes minimized. Innovation "boot camps" aim to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking in large corporations.
3) The paper advocates experiential learning programs like an IC2-3M partnership placing executives in incubators to learn global innovation and commercialization first-hand through distributed project teams. The goal is to
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Intelligent cities 2 - Towards global innovation ecosystems
1. Lecture 2
INTELLIGENT CITIES
Towards Global – Intelligent Innovation Ecosystems
Nicos Komninos
URENIO Research, Aristotle University
www.urenio.org
PhD seminar “Intelligent cities: Systems and Environment of Innovation” 1
2. Contents
Introduction: Intelligence and Innovation
1st G: Innovation clusters and technology districts
2nd G: Regional systems of innovation
3rd G: Intelligent / global innovation ecosystems
2
3. Introduction: Intelligence and Innovation
Research on human intelligence clearly links intelligence and innovation,
arguing that intelligence is bears elements of novelty, problem-solving,
achieving something that has never been done before by the particular
individual.
“I think of intelligence as the high-end scenery of neurophysiology – the
outcome of many aspects of an individual’s brain organisation which bears on doing
something one has never done before . . . This captures the element of novelty, the
coping and groping ability needed when there is no ‘right’ answer, when business as
usual isn’t likely to suffice”.
Calvin, W.H. (1998) How Brains Think. Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now,
London: Phoenix. pp. 14 and 18.
The concept of the ‘intelligent city’ integrates all aspects of human,
collective, and artificial intelligence enabling innovative behaviour and
performance of a population / community / city.
Innovative behaviour and performance, however, is systemic, emerging
from systems of interactions between science, technology, production,
funding, intermediary organisations and end-users. The foundation of
intelligent cities are on territorial (place-based) systems of innovation. 3
4. Systems of innovation exhibit a continuous spatial and social enlargement
enabling an increasing number of actors to be involved in the innovation process.
Knowledge interactions and boundaries of innovation systems expand
geographically all over the world.
Acquire
existing
(state-of-the-
art) know-how
Disseminate
Observe, Develop new
watch, knowledge knowledge
evaluate application (embodied
capability into new
Invent / products)
create new
knowledge
Knowledge interactions along the innovation process
Small innovation systems, based on physical proximity within clusters, have
evolved into larger-scale regional / national systems due to institutional
agreements and state policies; then with the introduction of advanced
information and communication technologies they have become more intelligent
and further enlarged to wider supra-national and global scales.
Three generations of territorial systems of innovation can be traced: (1) cluster-
based, (2) regional / national systems, and (3) intelligent / global systems. 4
6. 1st generation systems of innovation
Innovation clusters and technology districts
Explanations linking innovation and territory appeared in early 1980s in the
literature about industrial districts. The foundations of this paradigm can
be traced back to 1977, when Bagnasco and Becattini published their
studies on the Third Italy, describing small cities and communities of
central Italy flourishing on the basis of innovative small company clusters
belonging to the same industry.
Michael Porter popularized the concept of industry clusters is his book The
Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990). Porter recognized that the
majority of economic activity takes place at the regional level and his ideas
are commonly applied to cities and regions.
Porter provides a simple definition of two types of clusters: vertical
clusters, and horizontal clusters. Vertical clusters are made up of industries
that are linked through buyer-seller relationships. Horizontal clusters
include industries which might share a common market for the end
products, use a common technology or labour force skills, or require
similar natural resources.
The basic concept of the cluster is a geographical concentration of industries
that gain performance advantages through co-location and agglomeration
economies, either of scale or scope. 6
7. 1st generation systems of innovation
Clusters definition
A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely
together < <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cluster>
Α group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one
body <http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/business+cluster.html>
A business cluster is a geographic concentration of interconnected
businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field.
Clusters are considered to increase the productivity with which companies
can compete, nationally and globally. In urban study, the term
agglomeration is used.
This term industry cluster, also known as a business cluster, competitive
cluster, or Porterian cluster, was introduced and the term cluster
popularized by Michael Porter in The Competitive Advantage of Nations
(1990). The importance of economic geography, or more correctly
geographical economics, was also brought to attention by Paul Krugman in
Geography and Trade (1991).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cluster>
7
8. 1st generation systems of innovation
Innovation clusters typology
Type A – Cohesive Clusters
Cohesive Clusters are the oldest type. The operational characteristics of these agglomerative economies
were mentioned by Weber (1909) and Marshall (1925). Cohesive clusters are groups of firms which initially
located together to reduce costs. They tended to specialize in industries such as fashion items,
reproduction furniture, and printing. The main economic advantage has traditionally been described as
the reduction of ‘transaction costs’ particularly transport costs.
Type B – New Industrial Districts
New Industrial Districts tend be knowledge-based – that is they often have a high proportion of companies
in high-tech sectors such as computing, Information Technology (IT) and micro-electronics. They rely
extensively on R&D for the creation of new products. They tend to be located on the fringe of urban areas
or even at some distance from them – examples include Silicon Valley in California and the M4 Motorway
Corridor in Britain. Type B clusters are composed of a range of different size firms, from Trans-Nationals to
SMEs. The large firms form, often, long-standing relations with their smaller suppliers and they work
jointly on projects – in some cases with time horizons of decades.
Type C – Innovative Mileux
The description of the third type of cluster is largely based on the work of the group of researchers called
GREMI which emphasized the importance of social capital and collective learning in promoting innovation.
The Type C Clusters actively seek to promote innovation rather than simply rapidly responding to it and
actively work together to promote common, medium and long-term innovative goals.
Type D – Proximity Clusters
Proximity clusters are so called because they are located in a relatively close spatial relationships with
each other but do not form the kind of Local Production Network which the previous three clusters
exhibited in different ways. They are not so much embedded in an area but weakly attached to it.
Source: D.A. Hart, Innovation clusters: key concepts, http://www.reading.ac.uk/LM/LM/fulltxt/0600.pdf8
9. 1st generation systems of innovation
Industrial districts in traditional sectors
Buyers / catalysers
Flexible combinations
Nontraded inputs
Technological spillovers
Specialised firms / Skilled workers
Basic elements Structuring elements
Specialised firms / skilled Flexible combinations
workers Nontraded inputs
Buyers / catalysers Technological spillovers
9
10. 1st generation systems of innovation
Technology districts in high tech sectors
The Silicon Valley pattern
Fundamental processes sustaining innovation in the Valley are:
Basic research, knowledge generation and application capability of the kind
normally found centred on advanced private research or leading edge public
research laboratories.
Venture capital is crucial as the means by which ideas have been screened
and selected are given a chance to fly as commercial products or services.
Law firms are important as gatekeepers, advising firms on appropriate
investors, counselors assisting entrepreneurs to access other services, and
sources of contracts for many things ranging from recruitment to contract
manufacturing.
Specialist consultants in business and technological services ranging from
management accountants rather than simple auditing services, head hunting
services and specialist engineering, software and media, and regulatory
advisers or property development services, including specialised public
provision.
A local value chain of firms that can conduct, for example contract
manufacturing, design and fabrication, and various fairly prosaic supplies like
logistics, or exhibition organisation and specialised catering services. 10
Source: Cooke, P. (2003) ‘Economic globalisation and its future challenges for regional development , IJTM, V.26
11. 1st generation systems of innovation
Innovative milieu
Lawson and Lorenz (1999) argue
that the technological dynamism of The Networked Economy
districts is dependent on the firms Business
Consultants:
within them, sharing two forms of Public Sector
Services
cooperation: (1) the provision of National/Regional
Administration
Universities
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Source: Landabaso, 1999
11
12. 1st generation systems of innovation
Planned districts: Science and technology parks
The complexity of networks
within the district makes
(D) Space, Property,
‘technology districts planning’ infrastructure
extremely complicated. Technological valorisation of property
The nearest application of the
Spin-offs
district concept to urban and
(A) R&D Units
regional planning comes through Tech Transfer
science and technology parks.
About 400 cases in Europe (C) Innovative
Firms
(B) Technology
Four constituting elements: (a) Transfer Attraction of firms
Organisations
land / infrastructure, (b) R&D Tech Transfer
institutes, (c) technology
intermediary organisations, (d) New round of investment
innovative companies. Technology diffusion
Four types of technology
cooperation: joint R&D,
technology transfer, spin-off
creation, technology
dissemination. 12
13. 1st generation systems of innovation
Cluster-based innovation mechanisms
The innovation mechanism within the cluster / district is based on three
factors:
The concentration of many and diverse skills in the cluster or district
covering various fields of knowledge and production. Even in cases where
the whole cluster focuses on a single industrial sector, the multiplicity of
skills comes from specialisation in different stages of the production
process.
The cooperation networks between the members of the cluster.
Cooperation produce innovation, as the later stems from the combination
of skills, knowledge, and qualities that are put together. A minimum
number of cluster members is necessary to actualise spontaneous
networking (i.e. 100 companies has been considered as the threshold for
the definition of a production complex as an industrial district).
The presence of “catalysts” that facilitate combinations among the many
and diverse skills and units. The function of the catalyst, at Prato, for
example, is ensured by the “impannatori”, who constantly re-organise the
productive processes of the district in relation to trade orders. VC functions
as catalyst also in high tech clusters. The central administration and liaison
offices in the case of technology parks.
13
15. 2nd generation innovation systems
An institutional breakthrough
In 1990s, a radical shift from district theory took place. Three changes occurred:
From district theory to learning regions. The contribution of the District theory
write Lawson and Lorenz (1999) was more in the area of understanding the
territorial foundations of inter-firm cooperation than in understanding the
contribution of territorial clustering to a firm’s capacity to learn and generate new
knowledge.
From individual to organisational learning (OL): Individual learning refers to the
acquisition of information, knowledge, understanding and skills, through
participation is some form of education, training, whether formal or informal.
Organisational learning depends upon individual learning and builds upon. OL
amplifies the knowledge created by individuals, by appropriating knowledge from
outside or by creating new knowledge in interaction and collaboration to other
organisations
From linear (within the Lab) to systemic (within the territory) innovation : A
process hermetically sealed within the research lab of the large company has been
transformed into a system that covers an entire city-region involving participants
from the finance, the technological, and the production communities.
15
16. 2nd generation innovation systems
An institutional breakthrough
RESEARCH AND
TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION FINANCE
Research institutes Venture capital funds
University research Technology incentives
R&D in large companies Regional incentives and aids
Innovative SMEs Spin-offs / start-ups
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
Co-operation between
universities and
companies
Technology brokerage
Strategic
Company
Licensing
Planning
Innovation Market New Production
R&D Funding Research Product Re-tooling
Production
Runs
Development
PROCESS
INNOVATION
Clusters and networks
Technology co-operation
Supply chains NEW PRODUCT
Alliances DEVELOPMENT
Distribution & Provision of
Promotion management, product,
market, and quality
services
Specialised centres
Business consultants
16
17. 2nd generation innovation systems
Learning regions / regional systems of innovation
The region is conceptualised as
living organism with
technology learning,
REGIONAL SYSTEM OF
management, selection, and INNOVATION
Universities /
Research
knowledge development Institutes
capabilities Technology Transfer
Organisations
Innovation is based on a Tech Parks, Tech Networks,
Public R&D
system of clusters, R&D, tech Brokers, Consultants
Laboratories
transfer, and finance CLUSTERS
The system includes (1) Group of companies in co-
operation
Private R&D
Departments
demand and supply Vertical / Horizontal and Centres
institutions, (2) knowledge
networks
Networks allocate ‘formal’ and
‘tacit’ knowledge and enable Innovation Financing Technological Information System
collaborative innovation Banks, Business Angels, Patents, Standards, Technical
Publications, Emerging Markets,
Venture Capital, Regional
Institutions work as switches Incentives Foresight
selecting (on) and rejecting
(off) innovations
Priorities are on intangible
infrastructure, skills, human
capital, finance, cooperation
and social capital. 17
19. 2nd generation innovation systems
Triple helix alliances
The model denotes the “university-industry-government” relationships as a complex of
interdependent institutional spheres, which overlap and complement each other along
the process of innovation. 19
20. 2nd generation innovation systems
Precarious regional systems of innovation – Missing elements
TT R&D
C
FU INT
R&D: Research and development; TT: Technology transfer; INT: Information
intelligence; C: Companies (innovative) and Clusters; FU: Funding.
20
21. 2nd generation innovation systems
Policy model: Regional Innovation Strategies
In 1994, core concepts of the ‘learning
region’ paradigm (collaborative
networks, organisational learning,
institutional agreements, social
capital, political consensus) were
adopted by the European Commission
A new family of policy schemes was
introduced having a strategic view
over technology and innovation at the
regional level: Regional Innovation and
Technology Transfer Infrastructures
and Strategies (RITTS), Regional
Technology Plans (RTP), Regional
Innovation Strategies (RIS), and
Programmes of Regional Innovative
Actions (PRIA).
The objective is to create regional systems
of innovation capable to sustain and
facilitate innovation in small
companies in manufacturing and
services
21
22. 2nd generation innovation systems
Policy model: Regional Innovation Strategies
RIS principles are reflected in the policy’s methodology :
1. Raising awareness about innovation and building a regional consensus
among key regional actors;
2. Analysis of the regional innovation system (its actors and their interaction),
including technology and market trends assessment, technology foresight
and benchmarking with other regions ;
3. Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of regional firms: assessment of
regional demand for innovation services, including technology audits (in
SMEs in particular) and surveys regarding firms’ needs and capacities,
including management, finance, technology, training, marketing, etc.;
4. Assessment of the regional innovation support infrastructures and policy
schemes;
5. Definition of a strategic framework – including a detailed action plan and
the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation system. The action plan
may involve pilot actions and feasibility studies as well as concrete projects
that might be financed under existing structural funds operational
programmes.
22
23. 2nd generation innovation systems
Policy model: Regional Innovation Strategies
Strategic priorities to support
a regional system of innovation
Strengthen Improve intra- Offer risk Advance
Advance R&D technology company and start-up market and
capability transfer innovation funds to technology
capability capability innovation watch
23
24. 2nd generation innovation systems
Policy model: Innovation Poles / multicluster systems
INNOVATION POLES
In some countries (France, Italy) more
than one districts, clusters, and
science parks were developed within
the same urban system, creating
larger innovation poles.
Innovation Poles rely on multi-cluster
systems.
The emphasis is on clusters and
networks. Networks of collaboration,
communication and co-ordination
ensure the cohesion and synergy
among the individual poles.
Dev. Org. Univ. Labs
Montpellier: An early multi-cluster
Cluster Tech Park concept in master plan of the city
(1980’). Four clusters (Agrofood,
Pharmaceutical, Media, Automation)
Cluster Res. Inst. + Housing + Leisure
24
26. New trends in innovation
Open innovation and rising Asia
Business R&D expenditure rose by 5.2% in North America, 2.3% in Europe, and 3.8% in Japan during
2000-05, but by 17% in India and China, and by 19.7% in Australia, Brazil, Singapore, South Korea,
and Taiwan combined. 26
27. New trends
Innovation offshoring
The majority of the new R&D centers
to be created by MNCs will be
located in India, China and Asian
cities
Cisco has R&D facilities in
Bangalore
Toyota in Thailand
Nokia operates nine satellite
design studios located in India
(Bangalore), China (Beijing), and
Brazil
Source: United Nations (2005) UNCTAD Survey on the
Internationalization of R&D
27
29. New trends
Emerging innovation clusters in China, India, Malaysia
Bangalore (India) one of the largest
ΙΤ clusters (satellite platform).
Zhongguancun High Technology
Development Zone (China), cluster
in consumer electronicς.
Taiwan, Hsinchu Science Park,
cluster leader in semiconductors.
Singapore, new clusters in disk
drivers, multimedia, broadband
technologies, financial services.
Korea, Teheran Valley near Seoul, a nucleus of national industry, clusters in
broadband technologies and mobile communications.
Malaysia, long term effort in semiconductors, electronics, and software:
Multimedia Super Corridor, and cyber cities Cyberjaya, Purtajaya, Penang.
29
32. New trends
Innovation co-design with end-users / Crowdsourcing / Living Labs
Collaborative innovation environments based on community spaces, enable the
involvement of population in innovation development: Creative communities
32
33. New trends
Global online networks over innovation ecosystems
New trends (innovation offshoring /
digital brokers) create a global
virtual / organizational space over
the local / regional system of
innovation
Glocalisation of innovation: Local
systems open to global cooperation,
global networks in technology
acquisition, global product
development, global supply chains, Innovation System
product promotion
Intelligent cities enable local
innovation systems to integrate
global networks and advance
people-led innovation
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34. 3rd generation systems of innovation
Intelligent cities and regions
All these trends (global innovation
supply chains, open innovation,
Crowdsourcing, web-based innovation)
create a new innovation spatiality,
Innovation ecosystem
linking territorial systems of innovation Virtual Space
to the web, online knowledge
management tool, and digital
cooperation / communication spaces.
TT
Key processes: R&D
Dematerialisation of infrastructure FIN
Online learning and technology
Innovation ecosystem
management NET Physical Space
Virtual technology co-operation and PD
exchange
Virtual communities Intelligent cities and regions are territories
Digital promotion of innovation combining strong innovation systems with IT
Technology transfer as communication infrastructure and digital innovation services
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35. Territorial systems of innovation: Continuous enlargement
Advantages and weaknesses
Advantages Weaknesses
Clusters/ • Direct participation of • Planning barriers
Technology districts companies • High development costs
• Well known and wide • Innovation through
spread concept infrastructure ?
Learning regions / • Wider system of • Need for high institutional
Regional systems of reference thickness
innovation • Participation of R&D • Strong public-private
institutions partnership
• Emphasis on institutions •Sustainability after the
•Public policy support public support period
Physical – virtual • Low development cost • Digital gap
environments of • Easy access • IT literacy
innovation / • Global communication • Complex environments
Intelligent cities and networks • Need for simultaneous
• Involvement of people physical / digital interaction
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36. More:
Komninos, N. (2002) Intelligent Cities: Innovation, knowledge systems and digital
spaces, London and New York, Taylor and Francis (Part 1 and 2)
Komninos, N. (2008) Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks,
London and New York, Routledge (Chapters 3 and 4)
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