As one of the central cities of China and core cities of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou has long been the top choice for multinationals for investment deployment in China since China’s reform and opening-up. The Development Plan of the Pearl River Delta (2008-2020) Continue reading
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DG REGIO published a guide to improve the involvement of Universities in regional development. The Guide has been prepared by Professor John Goddard of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies Continue reading
A survey published by the Smart Cities Stakeholders Platform reveal that information related to solutions, technologies and case studies about smart cities are top information priorities in the EU. The survey gathered Continue reading
Just released the EU Innovation Scoreboard 2011, which has been prepared by the Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). The report is based on the performance of 25 innovation indicators which are grouped Continue reading
Pike Research launched of a Smart Cities Advisory Service which provides market intelligence and strategy insights for city officials, service providers, and vendors seeking to more effective smart energy and information technology to create more livable urban environments and foster economic development. Continue reading
The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research published a special issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to Innovation. It includes six papers plus the editors introduction. The JTAER is an open access journal and the papers of this special issue are open to download from theJournal’s website (Dec. 2102, Vol. 7, No. 3).
The special issue has gathered original papers on smart cities, driven by bottom up initiatives of citizens and organizations as innovators rather than by top down visions and plans that ignore the innovative potential of grassroots efforts. The connection between smart environments and bottom-up innovation practices in the framework of cities and urban agglomerations is the main focus of the special issue: how collaboration platforms, embedded systems, open data, and semantic web technologies sustain a new round of innovation driven by the creativity of citizens and the collective intelligence of their collaboration.
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Hans Schaffers, Carlo Ratti and Nicos Komninos
Smart Ideas for Smart Cities: Investigating Crowdsourcing for Generating and Selecting Ideas for ICT Innovation in a City Context
Dimitri Schuurman, Bastiaan Baccarne, Lieven De Marez and Peter Mechant
Do Smart Cities Produce Smart Entrepreneurs
Sabrina Sauer
Location-aware Mobile Services for a Smart City: Design, Implementation and Deployment
Luca Calderoni, Dario Maio and Paolo Palmieri
Virtual Cities in Urban Planning: The Uppsala Case Study
Cristina Videira Lopes and Christer Lindström
Municipal Benefits of Participatory Urban Sensing: A Simulation Approach and Case Validation
Till J. Winkler, Holger Ziekow and Martin Weinberg
Mobile Business and the Smart City: Developing a Business Model Framework to Include Public Design Parameters for Mobile City Services
Nils Walravens
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Guest Editors
Prof. Hans Schaffers
Aalto University School of Economics
Centre of Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)
E-mail: hans.schaffers@aalto.fi
Prof. Carlo Ratti
MIT
Senseable City Laboratory
E-mail: ratti@mit.edu
Prof. Nicos Komninos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Urban and Regional Innovation Research (URENIO)
E-mail: komninos@urenio.org
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Sant Cugat Smart City strategy outlines a series of topics to be considered in the preparation of a smart city strategy, such as the concept and model of smart city; the applications domains, Continue reading