Startup Cities-Smart Cities: how can we merge the concept of lean startup with smart cities ?
Georgia Voudouri, Maria Sfyraki, Angeliki Zervou, Georgia Psychogyiou, Ilira Aliaj, Katerina Papathanasiou
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
The document discusses smart cities and the citizen perspective. It defines smart cities as those that use information and communication technologies to improve urban services like transportation and utilities. This enhances quality of life. A smart city involves technology, government, and society working together. It also discusses how citizens can be involved through technologies like participatory sensing. The document emphasizes that smart cities should focus on basic infrastructure first to meet citizens' needs and aspirations.
Smart cities aim to enhance sustainability, economic development, and quality of life through infrastructure, human capital, social capital, and ICT infrastructure. A smart city is built to serve and sustain human life through better quality of life. Factors driving smart city evolution include cheaper sensors, telecommunication advances, smart devices, internet technologies, and human-machine interfaces. Experts predict the internet will become more embedded in daily life. The future smart city framework in 2050 envisions interactive public transport, ubiquitous services, and on-demand service delivery to build a city with a human touch.
Smart cities or smart citizens : which is the future?Naba Barkakati
A brief talk on smart cities or smart citizens, which is the future?
For more see http://nbtmv.blogspot.com/2016/03/smart-cities-or-smart-citizens-which-is.html
Smart Cities Market, by Component (Hardware, Software, and Services), by Application (smart Security, Smart Building, Smart Transportation, Smart Governance, Smart Energy, Smart Healthcare, Smart Water Network System, and Smart Education), and by Geography (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa) - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2019 - 2027
Presentation given by Nicola Graham, Smart Dublin, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium
Various cities around the world are taking that connectivity to the next level. They’re addressing some long-standing development issues by examining the potential of smart cities. In fact, estimates are that more than $41 trillion will be invested in the Internet of Things (IoT) tools and platforms to modernize cities around the world.
Smart cities are at the forefront of the next wave of the Internet of Things. The goals are to streamline communication and improve the lives of citizens. And save a little money along the way.
This presentation forecasts how urban planning and technology is shaping our cities through smart city initiatives. Ultimate objective is to make people happy and provide impactful experiences for people living in cities and solving cities challenges. Technology is only an enabler but people come first. These initiatives should be driven by outcomes and what cities want to achieve and become.
The document discusses smart cities and the citizen perspective. It defines smart cities as those that use information and communication technologies to improve urban services like transportation and utilities. This enhances quality of life. A smart city involves technology, government, and society working together. It also discusses how citizens can be involved through technologies like participatory sensing. The document emphasizes that smart cities should focus on basic infrastructure first to meet citizens' needs and aspirations.
Smart cities aim to enhance sustainability, economic development, and quality of life through infrastructure, human capital, social capital, and ICT infrastructure. A smart city is built to serve and sustain human life through better quality of life. Factors driving smart city evolution include cheaper sensors, telecommunication advances, smart devices, internet technologies, and human-machine interfaces. Experts predict the internet will become more embedded in daily life. The future smart city framework in 2050 envisions interactive public transport, ubiquitous services, and on-demand service delivery to build a city with a human touch.
Smart cities or smart citizens : which is the future?Naba Barkakati
A brief talk on smart cities or smart citizens, which is the future?
For more see http://nbtmv.blogspot.com/2016/03/smart-cities-or-smart-citizens-which-is.html
Smart Cities Market, by Component (Hardware, Software, and Services), by Application (smart Security, Smart Building, Smart Transportation, Smart Governance, Smart Energy, Smart Healthcare, Smart Water Network System, and Smart Education), and by Geography (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa) - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2019 - 2027
Presentation given by Nicola Graham, Smart Dublin, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium
Various cities around the world are taking that connectivity to the next level. They’re addressing some long-standing development issues by examining the potential of smart cities. In fact, estimates are that more than $41 trillion will be invested in the Internet of Things (IoT) tools and platforms to modernize cities around the world.
Smart cities are at the forefront of the next wave of the Internet of Things. The goals are to streamline communication and improve the lives of citizens. And save a little money along the way.
This presentation forecasts how urban planning and technology is shaping our cities through smart city initiatives. Ultimate objective is to make people happy and provide impactful experiences for people living in cities and solving cities challenges. Technology is only an enabler but people come first. These initiatives should be driven by outcomes and what cities want to achieve and become.
The document discusses the concept and pillars of smart cities. It provides context on the need for smart cities due to increasing urbanization globally and in developing countries specifically. The document defines smart cities as urban centers that use technology and data to improve infrastructure, services, and quality of life. It outlines the key pillars of smart cities as institutional, physical, social, and economic infrastructure with the goal of benefiting citizens. Case studies of smart city developments in Rio de Janeiro and Dholera, India are also presented.
Digital strategy for a successful smart city initiativeSaeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was presented during the Arab Future Cities Summit held in Dubai from 10-11 November 2014. It highlight the development of a digital strategy for a smart city initiatives. What is the main focus of a digital strategy for a smart city, what are the different planning approaches to smart city initiatives, and covers Dubai smart city initiative.
How UAE is driving smart sustainable cities: key achievements and future cons...Saeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was delivered during the Schneider Electric Power to the cloud 2016 event in April in Dubai. The presentation highlights the role of UAE in leading and driving smart sustainable cities locally and globally. Also provides insights into achievements of Dubai Smart cities program and what other cities in UAE is doing to transform into smart cities.
Finally, provides considerations for how to successfully transform into a smart city
This document discusses smart city development in Beijing, China. It provides background on China's overall business environment and factors driving Beijing to become a smart city, including challenges like pollution, water scarcity, and traffic congestion. Beijing is working to develop a technology cluster around smart cities and has several smart city initiatives underway, including the Smart Haidian Project, which aims to create a sustainable city through technologies like smart transport and energy solutions. Private companies are also involved in smart city projects in Beijing. The document concludes with policy recommendations to support further smart city development.
The document summarizes key information from a presentation on smart cities. It discusses:
1) The growing global population and increasing urbanization, highlighting the need for smarter infrastructure and services by 2050.
2) Elements of smart cities, including data collection and communication networks to improve livability, sustainability, and economic opportunities.
3) Steps cities can take to become smarter, such as assembling teams, creating visions and action plans, and implementing in stages with stakeholder engagement.
4) Ways the Smart Cities Council can help cities in their transformations, including readiness programs, workshops, and ongoing support.
This document discusses smart cities and some of the key challenges involved in developing and implementing smart city initiatives. It notes that smart cities can mean different things to different stakeholders like cities, businesses, and citizens. Some of the main challenges outlined include the complexity of cities and governance, developing an ecosystem of solutions and vendors, limited funding, and security issues. The document emphasizes that innovation does not require the latest technologies, and that collaboration both within and between cities is essential for smart city development. It presents examples of collaborations like Taiwan's Go Smart initiative and China's P.A.T.H. initiative. The conclusion is that moving forward will require engaging all stakeholders and focusing on solving real problems through proven as well as emerging technologies.
Smart City and Smart Government : Strategy, Model, and Cases of KoreaJong-Sung Hwang
Presentation file by Jong-Sung Hwang on Smart City and Smart Government. It was revised from an original presentation at FTTH New Zealand conference in May 2013. It explains different approaches to Smart City and the relationship between Smart City and Smart Government.
Vskills certification for Smart Cities Professional assesses the candidate as per the company’s need for developing knowledge and awareness. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in Need for Smart cities, approach to building smart cities, open data for smart cities and Sharing Economy
This document provides an overview of smart cities in India and Coimbatore's participation in the Smart Cities Mission. It defines urban development in India, outlines past urban development programs like JNNURM and AMRUT, and describes the goals and components of a smart city. It then details India's Smart Cities Mission, including the selection process for cities and financing mechanisms. The document concludes by outlining Coimbatore's selected projects worth over Rs. 1000 crores to improve infrastructure like roads, housing, energy access and lake development, as well as deploy smart solutions for lighting, surveillance and more.
Europe ‘s Smart budgeting mechanism creates immense opportunities for Smart City companies in the region. Moreover, government funding to entrepreneurs provides huge growth potential. Smart Cities Market Report Presentation Smart Buildings and Infrastructures, Energy Management, System Integration, Consulting Engagement, Market Research
The document discusses Microsoft's Smart Secondary City Project which examines how medium-sized cities in Southeast Asia use information and communication technologies (ICT) to address challenges. It provides examples of ICT usage across 12 cities in Indonesia, including Bandung, Surabaya, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Solo, Medan, Palembang, Samarinda, Denpasar, Makassar, Ambon, and Jayapura. Each city summary highlights ICT systems, applications, initiatives and infrastructure projects implemented by local governments and partners to improve public services, engage citizens, and support development.
Smart City Fever. The sunny and darker sides of a technology-driven urban hypeIzabela-Mironowicz
This document provides an overview of smart cities including:
- Many city governments are promoting smart urban technologies using citizens' interest in new technologies.
- Smart city technologies aim to integrate digital technologies like smartphones, big data, IoT into urban life.
- While smart cities offer benefits like improved services, they also pose risks like loss of privacy and increased corporate influence. Careful monitoring is needed to avoid negative social and economic impacts.
The document provides an overview of a presentation given by Prof. Allan Mayo on driving sustainable and inclusive growth through smart city strategies. Some key points:
- Greenwich has faced economic stagnation, austerity cuts, congestion, emissions issues, and demographic changes like an aging population.
- New technologies like AI and computerization threaten many low-skill jobs.
- RBG's smart city strategy aims to transform public services, neighborhoods, the economy, infrastructure, and the built environment through data-driven approaches and digital technologies.
- The strategy discusses initiatives like developing a digital skills cluster, improving digital connectivity and infrastructure, and using data and technologies to improve public services.
The document provides an overview of key shifts occurring in the digital economy that are enabling the transformation to smart cities. Some of the major shifts discussed include:
- A move from product ownership to accessing products and services through subscriptions.
- Personalization of products and services enabled by digital technologies like 3D printing and data-driven customization.
- Physical products becoming digital through digitization, hybrid digital-physical products, and physical products augmented with digital apps and services.
- Shortening of product life cycles and increasing pace of adoption of new technologies, placing pressure on companies to learn and adapt quickly.
The document discusses how discussions of future "smart cities" often focus too much on new technologies and not enough on the people who inhabit cities. It argues that even the smartest city technologies will not make a city truly smart if the needs and desires of residents are not prioritized. Examples of technologies that could improve people's lives are given, such as those that decrease travel time, enable communication, provide information, allow for crowdsourcing, and ensure access to services and the internet. However, the key conclusion is that the priorities for any city should be its inhabitants and ensuring the city meets their needs and allows them to live safely, easily, and with access to community.
This document outlines the agenda for a workshop on inclusive smartness. The agenda includes:
1. Input on 'inclusive smartness' with rounds of personal reflections and group work.
2. A discussion on how to create inclusive smart cities, including prioritizing people, tackling digital exclusion, and driving community co-creation.
3. A transition from discussing inclusive smart cities to inclusive smart projects and products, with a focus on inclusion by design.
The document discusses the concept and pillars of smart cities. It provides context on the need for smart cities due to increasing urbanization globally and in developing countries specifically. The document defines smart cities as urban centers that use technology and data to improve infrastructure, services, and quality of life. It outlines the key pillars of smart cities as institutional, physical, social, and economic infrastructure with the goal of benefiting citizens. Case studies of smart city developments in Rio de Janeiro and Dholera, India are also presented.
Digital strategy for a successful smart city initiativeSaeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was presented during the Arab Future Cities Summit held in Dubai from 10-11 November 2014. It highlight the development of a digital strategy for a smart city initiatives. What is the main focus of a digital strategy for a smart city, what are the different planning approaches to smart city initiatives, and covers Dubai smart city initiative.
How UAE is driving smart sustainable cities: key achievements and future cons...Saeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was delivered during the Schneider Electric Power to the cloud 2016 event in April in Dubai. The presentation highlights the role of UAE in leading and driving smart sustainable cities locally and globally. Also provides insights into achievements of Dubai Smart cities program and what other cities in UAE is doing to transform into smart cities.
Finally, provides considerations for how to successfully transform into a smart city
This document discusses smart city development in Beijing, China. It provides background on China's overall business environment and factors driving Beijing to become a smart city, including challenges like pollution, water scarcity, and traffic congestion. Beijing is working to develop a technology cluster around smart cities and has several smart city initiatives underway, including the Smart Haidian Project, which aims to create a sustainable city through technologies like smart transport and energy solutions. Private companies are also involved in smart city projects in Beijing. The document concludes with policy recommendations to support further smart city development.
The document summarizes key information from a presentation on smart cities. It discusses:
1) The growing global population and increasing urbanization, highlighting the need for smarter infrastructure and services by 2050.
2) Elements of smart cities, including data collection and communication networks to improve livability, sustainability, and economic opportunities.
3) Steps cities can take to become smarter, such as assembling teams, creating visions and action plans, and implementing in stages with stakeholder engagement.
4) Ways the Smart Cities Council can help cities in their transformations, including readiness programs, workshops, and ongoing support.
This document discusses smart cities and some of the key challenges involved in developing and implementing smart city initiatives. It notes that smart cities can mean different things to different stakeholders like cities, businesses, and citizens. Some of the main challenges outlined include the complexity of cities and governance, developing an ecosystem of solutions and vendors, limited funding, and security issues. The document emphasizes that innovation does not require the latest technologies, and that collaboration both within and between cities is essential for smart city development. It presents examples of collaborations like Taiwan's Go Smart initiative and China's P.A.T.H. initiative. The conclusion is that moving forward will require engaging all stakeholders and focusing on solving real problems through proven as well as emerging technologies.
Smart City and Smart Government : Strategy, Model, and Cases of KoreaJong-Sung Hwang
Presentation file by Jong-Sung Hwang on Smart City and Smart Government. It was revised from an original presentation at FTTH New Zealand conference in May 2013. It explains different approaches to Smart City and the relationship between Smart City and Smart Government.
Vskills certification for Smart Cities Professional assesses the candidate as per the company’s need for developing knowledge and awareness. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in Need for Smart cities, approach to building smart cities, open data for smart cities and Sharing Economy
This document provides an overview of smart cities in India and Coimbatore's participation in the Smart Cities Mission. It defines urban development in India, outlines past urban development programs like JNNURM and AMRUT, and describes the goals and components of a smart city. It then details India's Smart Cities Mission, including the selection process for cities and financing mechanisms. The document concludes by outlining Coimbatore's selected projects worth over Rs. 1000 crores to improve infrastructure like roads, housing, energy access and lake development, as well as deploy smart solutions for lighting, surveillance and more.
Europe ‘s Smart budgeting mechanism creates immense opportunities for Smart City companies in the region. Moreover, government funding to entrepreneurs provides huge growth potential. Smart Cities Market Report Presentation Smart Buildings and Infrastructures, Energy Management, System Integration, Consulting Engagement, Market Research
The document discusses Microsoft's Smart Secondary City Project which examines how medium-sized cities in Southeast Asia use information and communication technologies (ICT) to address challenges. It provides examples of ICT usage across 12 cities in Indonesia, including Bandung, Surabaya, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Solo, Medan, Palembang, Samarinda, Denpasar, Makassar, Ambon, and Jayapura. Each city summary highlights ICT systems, applications, initiatives and infrastructure projects implemented by local governments and partners to improve public services, engage citizens, and support development.
Smart City Fever. The sunny and darker sides of a technology-driven urban hypeIzabela-Mironowicz
This document provides an overview of smart cities including:
- Many city governments are promoting smart urban technologies using citizens' interest in new technologies.
- Smart city technologies aim to integrate digital technologies like smartphones, big data, IoT into urban life.
- While smart cities offer benefits like improved services, they also pose risks like loss of privacy and increased corporate influence. Careful monitoring is needed to avoid negative social and economic impacts.
The document provides an overview of a presentation given by Prof. Allan Mayo on driving sustainable and inclusive growth through smart city strategies. Some key points:
- Greenwich has faced economic stagnation, austerity cuts, congestion, emissions issues, and demographic changes like an aging population.
- New technologies like AI and computerization threaten many low-skill jobs.
- RBG's smart city strategy aims to transform public services, neighborhoods, the economy, infrastructure, and the built environment through data-driven approaches and digital technologies.
- The strategy discusses initiatives like developing a digital skills cluster, improving digital connectivity and infrastructure, and using data and technologies to improve public services.
The document provides an overview of key shifts occurring in the digital economy that are enabling the transformation to smart cities. Some of the major shifts discussed include:
- A move from product ownership to accessing products and services through subscriptions.
- Personalization of products and services enabled by digital technologies like 3D printing and data-driven customization.
- Physical products becoming digital through digitization, hybrid digital-physical products, and physical products augmented with digital apps and services.
- Shortening of product life cycles and increasing pace of adoption of new technologies, placing pressure on companies to learn and adapt quickly.
The document discusses how discussions of future "smart cities" often focus too much on new technologies and not enough on the people who inhabit cities. It argues that even the smartest city technologies will not make a city truly smart if the needs and desires of residents are not prioritized. Examples of technologies that could improve people's lives are given, such as those that decrease travel time, enable communication, provide information, allow for crowdsourcing, and ensure access to services and the internet. However, the key conclusion is that the priorities for any city should be its inhabitants and ensuring the city meets their needs and allows them to live safely, easily, and with access to community.
This document outlines the agenda for a workshop on inclusive smartness. The agenda includes:
1. Input on 'inclusive smartness' with rounds of personal reflections and group work.
2. A discussion on how to create inclusive smart cities, including prioritizing people, tackling digital exclusion, and driving community co-creation.
3. A transition from discussing inclusive smart cities to inclusive smart projects and products, with a focus on inclusion by design.
Dubrovnik Key Conclusions - Team TechTowntechplace
This document discusses ways that medium-sized cities can grow digital jobs through smart city initiatives. It suggests that cities support local entrepreneurs in developing solutions to community challenges through hackathons. The document also recommends that cities provide follow up support to help solutions be piloted and implemented. Additionally, it advises cities to localize efforts, drive agendas through collaboration, openly share data, work with industry leaders, raise public awareness, lead by developing e-government services, and provide test beds to help startups initiate and grow.
This document summarizes the key activities and goals of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities. The partnership aims to (1) improve citizens' quality of life, (2) increase competitiveness of European industry and SMEs, and (3) make cities more sustainable and livable. It works towards these goals through six action clusters focusing on areas like sustainable districts, mobility, infrastructure, and business models. The partnership has over 370 commitments with 4000 partners from 31 countries collaborating on smart city solutions.
UX Research & Platform Ecosystem Design - Archetypes in Sustainability Transf...Renzo D'andrea
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Social Media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RenzoDan5
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renzodand...
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This presentation was given as an opening of the first OuiShare Forum - OuiShare semestrial event for the corporates that want to understand how to transform to cope with the collaborative transformation and become players of change.
Iris webinar - Creating smart city business models v4.pptIRIS Smart Cities
In this webinar, Utrecht University presents recipes to generate smart city business model ideas. Also, a blueprint for a Business Incubation Program will be showcased by incubator UtrechtInc, to guide teams behind the respective ideas to revenue and scale.
1) SocialThinkers is a web development agency that specializes in agile development and community building.
2) They focus on developing simple, targeted online solutions that provide added value to users and drive engagement.
3) One case study involved developing a website called kulturkenner.de to showcase arts and culture in North Rhine-Westphalia by linking events, allowing users to plan activities and share recommendations with others.
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This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on smart cities. It discusses four topics: smart sociality, smart transactions, smart buildings, and smart mobility. For each topic, it provides background context and questions for participants to discuss in 15-minute breakout sessions. The goal is to generate ideas, insights, opportunities, and questions around how technology could shape people's everyday lives and interactions within smart city contexts.
The document discusses developing infrastructure like universities, colleges, and digital centers to support the creative and digital industries sector. It focuses on accelerating and bridging digital skills by increasing collaboration between government, businesses and education. It also addresses responding to new employment patterns like rising self-employment and ensuring business environments are inclusive. Past initiatives that invested in community media, creative industries and digital skills are highlighted as building legacies from prior investments.
One Africa Network Webinar: Design Thinking and Innovation - Staying Ahead o...SSCG Consulting
On Thursday 30 July 2020, One Africa Network (OAN) live discussion webcast on Design Thinking and Innovation: Staying Ahead of the Curve to discuss and share thoughts, experiences, perspectives and solutions on innovative ways to transform for growth, design thinking application, new innovative way to problems solving and generating innovative ideas.
Panel speakers included:
- Dr Chloe Sharp - Marketing Director at Combine AI
- Alae Ismail - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager at Imperial College London
- Genevieve Leveille - Principal Founder and CEO of AgriLedger, Innovative Entrepreneur and 2019 FT Top 100 BAME in Technology in UK
- Nick Jankel - Founder and CEO of Switch On: The Transformational Leadership and Life Enterprise, Co-Founder and Chairperson, FutureMakers and Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, Sciences Po, UC Berkeley, LBS, Oxford University, UCL
- Dr William Murithi FHEA. - Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at De Montfort University
- Georgie Manly - Senior Innovation Consultant at Human Innovation
To prototype our project we will use the Busines Canvas, a tool created by Alexander Osterwalder that visualize the 9 components of a project. It has became really popular and is used in most start up incubators. The Business Canvas allows us to see quickly how every component is interrelated. When we want to set a social enterprise it is equally important what we do and how we do it. Working under the new paradigm of Collaboration have specific consequences in each component: Value proposition: Need or encourage hero´s journey?, Client: Beneficiary or Hero?, Relationship: service provider or Community?, Channel: Transactional or transformational?, Activities: Close or Open for collaboration?, Resources: without soul or an opportunity to activate hero´s journey?, Partnership: Instrumental or shared purpose? Income&Expenses: All free/all paid or freemium?
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Loop City Key Conclusions – Team TechTowntechplace
Medium sized cities can grow digital jobs through the smart city agenda in three main ways:
1) By driving demand for innovative smart city solutions and providing test beds for companies to trial new technologies in a real-world setting.
2) By facilitating collaboration between different stakeholders through multi-stakeholder planning and providing spaces for startups and corporations to innovate together.
3) By collecting and sharing open data, supporting digital education, and working with startups to develop new e-government services to serve as examples and disrupt traditional services.
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1. Startup Cities-Smart Cities:
how can we merge the concept of lean startup with smart cities
?
Georgia Voudouri
Maria Sfyraki
Angeliki Zervou
Georgia Psychogyiou
Ilira Aliaj
Katerina Papathanasiou
2. Cyber Cities, Digital Cities, Intelligent Cities... SMART CITIES
are:
An example of City Design Policies that rely upon: Innovation & Broadband
Their goal is entirely constructive: to shift the debate in a more meaningful direction
oriented towards the raison d’ etre of our cities: citizens, and the way they can
create urban culture with technology. (Graham 2003)
The outcome of the convergence of the two mainstreams that characterize the
urban thought and development of the 21st century:
1. The City as an environment of intense knowledge and innovation (Cooke 2001,
Florida 2002, Komninos 2002)
2. The construction of broadband networks and online services that support
communication, representation, function and governance of cities (Graham
2003).
As the British architect Cedric Price said in the mid-1960s: “Technology is the
answer. But what is the question?”
-“Can a City be “smart” and inefficient at the same time? Perhaps this is a
fundamental question, un-voiced by smart cities advocates”. (Cedric Price 1967)
-“Smart City? The City as public good?” (Cedric Price 1967)
3. Definitions & Theories | STARTUP
what is a START UP
"A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service
under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, by Eric Ries from the book “The Lean
Startup”
Eric Ries: a serial entrepreneur co-founded IMVU, an online social network that
made the Inc. 500 last year. Through trial and error at IMVU, Ries developed a
methodical approach to launching companies that goes beyond bootstrapping. Now
he's creating a movement.
«The only metrics that entrepreneurs should invest energy in collecting are
those that help them make decisions», Eric Ries blogpost, 2009
4. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
what is a LEAN START UP
"Having an original vision and then refining and testing it along the way through
tightly controlled experiments“
“Not about asking what customers want but testing the original vision based on what
customers do”. Ash Maurya, 2010
5. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean StartUp 5 PRINCIPLES:
Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don't have to work in a garage to be in a
startup
Entrepreneurship Is Management. A startup is an institution, not just a product, so
it requires management, a new kind of management specifically geared to its context.
Validated Learning. Startups exist not to make stuff, make money, or serve
customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. This learning can
be validated scientifically, by running experiments that allow us to test each element
of our vision.
Innovation Accounting. To improve entrepreneurial outcomes, and to hold
entrepreneurs accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure
progress, how to setup milestones, how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of
accounting, specific to startups.
Build-Measure-Learn. The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into
products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or
persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that
feedback loop
6. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean StartUp METHOD & APPROACH:
not about code-writing, but about building things that people want.
Using the Lean Startup method Companies:
Can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
Can create a sustainable plan form the start, due to the fact that by the time that
product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
The Lean Startup Method was created to answer a specific problem:
Many StartUps spend time perfecting a product that they think people want without
ever showing it, even to the prospective customer.
They often fail to reach broad uptake from customers because they never
determined whether or not the product was interesting.
When customers show indifference about the idea, the StartUp fails.
7. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean StartUp METHOD & APPROACH: 4 ways of working | thinking | doing:
1. Eliminate Uncertainty - "just do it" leads to work
“under conditions of extreme uncertainty”. A Lean
Startup continuously tests its vision.
2. Work Smarter not harder - "Should this product
be built?" vs
"Can this product be built?“
3. Develop an MVP - Create a build-measure-learn
feedback loop.
4. Validated Learning
Shrink development process - focus on figuring “the
thing customers want and will pay for”
[source: http://theleanstartup.com ]
8. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean StartUp MVP:
MVPs are NOT necessary and are in fact a waste when:
You are building a sustaining innovation product.
You don’t care if you’re wasteful.
You achieve product-market fit.
We should beware of points 1 and 3 about cities.
EXAMPLE of MVP in Kungsbacka, Sweden- Through The European
Commission’s Sustainable Urban Mobility campaign
“In collaboration with the local merchants of the inner-city we will try the delivery of
goods by cargo-bikes on selected occasions.
Objectives: Increase the number of pedestrians and cyclists in the city center.
Increase the revenues of commerce.
Try & evaluate if there is a place for some kind of delivery service even after the
project.” 08/04/13 - 12/08/13
[Source: http://dotherightmix.eu/lean-city-planning-and-delivery]
9. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean StartUp PIVOT:
Pivot = a change in strategy without a change in vision.
The Pivot as city branding policy
-PIVOT Dublin: the city as a test-bed/ platform for design solutions to local, national
and global challenges. A pivot creates a departure point, a fulcrum, an angle from
which to proceed. It is a step in the process of lining up for the next move. It suggests
success, urgency and decisiveness.
PIVOT sees these challenges and opportunities under four themes, which represent
issues that face all cities.
1. Connecting Cities. This theme is about connecting resources to needs; ideas to
finance; and conversation to action.
2. Making cities Lighter (sustainable)
3. Making cities flow
4. Making cities happy.
[Source: http://www.pivotdublin.com/index.php/vision ]
10. Definitions & Theories | LEAN STARTUP
the Lean as MANAGEMENT POLICY:
Lean Thinking Melbourne (as Local Government policy)
Lean Thinking is an improvement system which focuses on improving the quality,
timeliness and cost of services we deliver from the perspective of the customer.
The system provides: 1. a structure
2. techniques and tools for carrying out improvements.
Goal: to deliver increased satisfaction for our customers and staff.
A continuous improvement model
11. Definitions & Theories| LEAN STARTUP
the Lean as MANAGEMENT POLICY:
Focus on the end-to-end systemic delivery of services and elimination of waste.
Widely known for its use at Toyota (called the Toyota Production System).
Focus on the end-to-end methodical delivery of services and the removal of non-
value added waste
WASTE = Anything more than the minimum amount of: Process, Labor, Materials,
Space, Equipment, and adds no value to the product or service!
12. Successful Examples| INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM (I.C.F.)
The Intelligent Community Forum is: a think tank that studies the economic and social
development of the 21st Century community.
The Intelligent Community Forum is working upon the notion that: for the 21st
Century community, connectivity is a double-edge sword: threatening established ways
of life on the one hand, and offering powerful new tools to build prosperous, inclusive
and sustainable economies on the other.
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) seeks to: share the best practices of the
world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy,
in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth.
13. Successful Examples| INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM (I.C.F)
DESPITE OF ALL: The implications of Intelligent Cities ought to merge the physical,
institutional and digital space of cities having as intermediary a hybrid architecture of
multiple combinations driven form basic generic categories of knowledge and
innovation [Komninos, Schaffers, Pallot, Trousse, Nilsson, and Oliveira 2008]
14. Successful Examples| STOCKHOLM
Intelligent Community of the Year 2009: Stockholm, Sweden
“This is a community that has methodically and substantially redefined the
possibilities of urban living and sets an example of how technology can play a role to
enhance economic and social development,” said Louis Zacharilla, ICF Co-founder,
2009
STOCKHOLM: Sweden´s political, cultural and economic center since the 1200s.
Most of the country's head offices and 1/3 foreign-owned companies are located
there. 1/3 Swedish companies is located in the county. high education levels are
(51% of Stockholmers have studied at university levels compared with 35%
nationwide) and average salaries are proportionally higher.
2007 population of : 795.00
2030 expected population: 1.000.000 with parallel increase of the population at
the district of Malaren Valley approximately at 3.5 millions
According the European Innovation Figuratives amongst 208 districts in
Europe, Stockholm holds the first rank with “composite rate” 0.90 /1.00 &
additional high performances in domains of innovation, knowledge intensity,
on end education, patents, services of high technology.
Holds the 1st rank from 2003.
15. Successful Examples| STOCKHOLM
Stokab , a city-owned company, has started building since 1994 a fiber-optic network
throughout the municipality as a level playing field for all operators. 1.2 million
kilometer (720,000-mile) network / more than 90 operators & 450 enterprises as primary
customers / expected to add 95,000 households to the network. Stockholm’s Mayor has
set a goal of connecting 90% of all households to fiber by 2012.
The most popular digital online services are: Child Care / Student-Teacher Dialogue / Digital
Library / Traffic Management / Telemedicine and e-Health.
2007. Stockholm published Vision 2030: a world-class metropolis offering a rich urban
living experience.
2009. Stockholm has been chosen as the 1st Green Capital of Europe, for the holistic
plan concerning her goal to be the 1st City to be introduced independent of mineral
fuel until 2050
16. Successful Examples| KISTA
KISTA SCIENCE CITY. One of the world's largest and most rapidly growing ICT clusters
is located just north of Stockholm. Kista Science City is an innovation zone which today
houses more than 1100 businesses, 6000 students and 1000 researchers within ICT.
Starts at the mid of 1970 as satellite city of Stockholm.
In 1975 Ericsson moves into K.S.C
In 1978 ΙΒΜ moves into K.S.C. and from 1985 several small and medium enterprises.
1990 the Municipality of Stockholm undertake the initiative to create the Electrum
Institution in collaboration with private - public sector and universities, having as goal to
improve the knowledge transfer from academic-research society to civil society.
31.000 are the human force working at K.S.C
1.400 enterprises are accommodated in K.S.C.
“Kista Science City is much more than “just” an ICT cluster, it’s a city of science with
a well-planned public environment, with parks, recreation facilities, shopping facilities,
good housing and cultural activities and events, where people can enjoy living, studying
and working. Projects are constantly under way at Kista Science City, enhancing and
improving the townscape in the form of more efficient infrastructure and planning of new
districts.”
17. Successful Examples| KISTA
Some of the development projects that are ready in the near future are:
2011: Arne Beurlings Square / Sky scraper hotel Victoria Tower / Construction start
office complex NOD / Construction start residential area Kistahöjden
2012: Construction start sky scrapers Kista Torn with apartments and library
2013: Construction start residential area Kista Äng / Construction start new tramway /
Office complex NOD is finished
2014: Kista Torn is finished
2015: Residential areas Kista Gård och Kistahöjden finished
2017: Kista Äng finished & new tramway finished
Development of Kista’s city-like environment is proceeding at a rapid rate. A number
of new construction projects are under way in the area; in addition to the future
landmarks of Victoria Tower and Kista Torn, more housing is being built, together
with new squares that will become meeting places for Kista.
18. Successful Examples| LIVING LABS (L.Ls.)
European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) :
international non-profit association - Brussels, November 2006
grew in 3 "waves" reaching 129 L.Ls.(10 outside Europe)
www.openlivinglabs.eu/livinglabs
Living Lab: a cluster/city area hosting a full scale urban laboratory, giving
ground to the invention, prototyping and marketing of new mobile technology
applications.
“user driven open innovation”
Key Innovative Concept: Real time and space participation of the citizen
A L.L. is an ecosystem that allows for the simultaneous evaluation of the social and
technological aspects of innovation, through a Partnerships of Public-Private-Peoples
(PPPP) (i.e.end-users, corporations, citizens, the public sector, NGOs and academia)
19. Successful Examples| LIVING LABS (L.Ls.)
L.L.s Promote: DIRECT involvement + collaboration
Real time experimentation beyond that of a simple research field, through
constant interactive tests that give constructive feedback //LEAN STARTUP
Techniques of Real and Digital Space experiments (Innovaro 2009):
1. Virtual Persons/entities
Imaginary characters helping to imagine future people's needs-forms of integrating
products and technology in a future way of life
2. Behaviour Observation
Real time observation defining and understanding unspoken needs and behaviors
3. User Groups
1.000-6.000 members: consulting groups, peer reviews, on-line discussion,
modification proposals
4. Collaborative Design
clients directly involved in the product/service development- design teams formed by
designers, engineers, managers+ clients
20. Successful Examples| LIVING LABS (L.Ls.)
L.L. Ecosystem Components:
Broadband infrastructure & innovation:
Cities/clusters become HUBS in the global flow of goods, services, people and ideas.
"Demand" is connected to "Offer" in sectors ranging from ICT technologies to energy,
environment, food, health, tourism, culture, and usually each L.L. has a thematic
orientation.
(e.g.SOLET-eTourism, TRAIL-Technologies for Rurality, Agro Living Lab, Issy-les-
Moulineaux Medialand, LIFENET, Gyor Automotive LL, ESAFrascati Living Lab,
Telemedicine Living Lab, Cyber Care Clinique, RENER-Renewable Energies, Smart-
House LLMadrid, CitySDK, Specifi, Creative Ring etc)
Technological Components & open involvement of the interested parties
ICT Technologies and Digital Space offer the necessary networks and platforms to
render participation and involvement feasible, especially in the case of large groups.
(eg.Crowd-spirit (http://www.crowdspirit.com/), Chaordix (http://www.chaordix.com/),
Ecospace platform (http://www.ip-
ecospace.org/,Cooltownstudios(http://www.cooltownstudios.com/category/placemaki
ng/), Ideascale (http://www.ideascale.com/), PeertoPatent
(http://www.peertopatent.org/)
[source: http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/, http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/news/enoll-strategic-project-involvement,
http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/livinglabs]
21. Key Components| NETWORKS & TECHNOLOGY
“Lean Smart Cities”: from centralized networks to decentralized or distributed ones
Key factor:
Technology & Technological Research ICT Companies & Academia
22. Key Components| NETWORKS & TECHNOLOGY
SmartCitizen Project www.smartcitizen.me/en/
A platform to generate participatory processes of the people in the cities. Connecting
data, people and knowledge, it’s objective is to serve as a node for building
productive open indicators and distributed tools, and thereafter the collective
construction of the city for its own inhabitants.
Creation of citizen driven networks based on city environmental values or home
energy consumption. Geolocate your data, manage what you share, with whom and
why.
“after PCs (digital content creation) and Internet (digital content sharing), now
we can be aware of our environment and transform it”
23. Key Components| NETWORKS & TECHNOLOGY
SmartGeometry Clusters
(A)Synchronous Streams (sg2013)
Data collection, interpretation, and manipulation allowing for better understanding of
construction-urban implementation sites, thus responding better to its specificities
Volatile Territories (sg2013)
Using collected data as direct morphological parameters, thusmaking forms
expanding and contracting according to it.
[source: www. smartgeometry.org]
ConnectMe by Ericsson
"Imagine that your body is part of a network – able to transmit information, images
and codes – simply by touching an object".
[source: www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/connected_me]
Datenspiel / Dataplay (+Goethe Institute@Frowntails // Hybrid City Revolutions
Conference) 19-26/5/2013 Athens
4 experimental workshops about networks, data and their invisible flows in the urban
environment, directed by international artists. They will explore/use the city's
electromagnetic fields, to capture and map the city's data body and to propose new
free and independent models for sharing and distributing information.
[source: http://frowntails.blogspot.gr/2013/03/datenspiel-dataplay-eng-version.html ]
24. Successful Examples| Microsoft
Proof of concept by Microsoft
Proof of Concept can:
find solution that meet the business needs
Ensure that the solution can be deployed successfully
Help enterprise decision-makers arrive at a purchasing decision quickly and
cost-effectively
Introduce Microsoft Dynamics solution to the staff to obtain their acceptance
Provide an initial system configuration that can be carried forward to the next
phases of implementation
Intelligent Transport Proof of concept by Microsoft
Birmingham : UK's first Intelligent City
Bringing together digital media and transport technologies
Information about: traffic congestion, car parking availability, bus scheduling
provides real time location-specific tracking information through one platform
Helps find the quickest and most fuel-efficient routes
information gets constantly updated
applicable for pedestrians and public transport users
linking with many separate information sources
[source: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/]
25. Successful Examples| IBM Smarter City
IBM smarter city solutions
Social programs solutions
Healthcare solutions
Education solutions
Public safety solutions
Smarter buildings and urban
planning solutions
Government and agency
administration solutions
Infrastructure solutions
[source:
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/
smarter_cities/overview/
http://www-
03.ibm.com/innovation/us/thesmartercity
/?cm_mmc=agus_brsmartcity-
20090929-usbrp111-_-p-_-smcityvan-_-
smcityvan]
26. Successful Examples| Barcelona 22@
Poblenou: from a mid-nineteenth century vibrant and successful textile sector,
Into ‘the Catalan Manchester’.
2000: 22@Barcelona project transforms the old industrial areas of Poblenou in a
high-quality environment for working, living and learning. An innovative district
offering modern spaces for the strategic concentration of knowledge-based activities.
TOTAL PLANNING AREA: 1.159.626
m² 22@ land.
HOUSING:
. Recognition of the existing 4.614
dwellings
. Creation of 4.000 new state-
subsidized housing units (minimum
25% rental).
INCREASE IN GREEN SPACES:
114.000 m² land.
NEW FACILITIES: 145.000 m² land.
NEW JOBS GENERATED: 130.000.
INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
PLAN: 180 million Euros
27. Successful Examples| Barcelona 22@
22@Barcelona is based on a triple axis:
•urban refurbishment -create a diverse and balanced environment where the different
facilities coexist with state-subsidized buildings, equipments and green spaces.
•economic refurbishment -an important scientific, technologic and cultural platform
transforming Barcelona into one of the most dynamic and innovative cities throughout
the world. Εmphasis on SME, starts ups and entrepreneurs.
•social refurbishment -interrelation among different professionals who work in the
area and the participation of the district's neighbours in the opportunities information
technologies offer.
28. Successful Examples| Barcelona 22@
Barcelona Urban Lab - the city as an urban
laboratory
•Facilitate: Urban Lab acts as a gateway to the City
Council and facilitates internal coordination among
the different areas
•Pilot programs: allows for the creation of pilot
programs but is not a tool to sell products that
already exist on the market.
•Urban impact: pilot programs must demonstrate
an express need to use public spaces, the city
streets
•Pre-market: seeks out innovative solutions to
unresolved needs
•Aligned: The pilot programs must meet the
Barcelona City Council’s real needs and must have
a direct impact on the functioning of the city or on
the services provided by the City Council itself,
benefiting residents.
29. Successful Examples| CONCLUSIONS
Through the examples we can see Smart Cities being organized as multileveled
urban systems, in which infrastructure and human capacities,
information/knowledge handling institutions and digital networks complete
each-other, improving the capability of mutual problem solving.
They can thus answer to more complex and crucial urban problems like:
1. Competitiveness, growth, productive clusters extroversion (see Singapore
iN2015, L.Ls.,ENOLL)
2. City Environment (see IMB, Smart Cities)
3. City Transport (see MS, Intelligent Transport proof of concept)
4. Security in urban areas (see CISCO, Intelligent Urbanization)