“Connecting Smart and Sustainable Growth through Smart Specialisation” is a guide in a series of guides prepared in the framework of the Smart Specialisation Platform set up by the European Commission. It is not an academic publication but a practical document with concrete recommendations and examples of good practice that show potential ways forward and to facilitate Continue reading
Watch:
Innovation Strategies
Booz & Company’ s annual study of R&D spending reveals successful innovators and brings clarity to a process often described as fuzzy and vague. In 2011, corporate spending among the Global Innovation 1000 increased 9.6 percent over the previous year, Continue reading
Amsterdam Smart City is mainly about cooperation; about city, citizens and companies working together to reduce CO2-emissions. The Amsterdam Smart City project started with a small organization and the goal to start new Public Private Partnerships, Continue reading
The Center of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT) promotes the investigation and debate around various areas of Geography and at the intersection with diverse scientific disciplines, Continue reading
Contiki is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things. Contiki is used in a wide variety of systems such as city sound monitoring, street lights, networked electrical power meters, industrial monitoring, radiation monitoring, construction site monitoring, Continue reading
Published in July, the Smart Cities and Communities European Innovation Partnership (SCC) is a partnership across the areas of energy, transport, information and communication with the objective to advance solutions in areas where energy production, distribution and use; Continue reading
Strategy + Business just published a survey on the supply side of “digitization’, a society shift based on ubiquitous handheld devices, pervasive sensing apparatus, “big data’ analytics, digital supply chains, search engines, social networks, satellite-based geographic tracking, interconnected real-time digital infrastructure, and massive server farms. Continue reading