The Australian consulting firm 2thinknow has released its annual list of the most innovative cities in the world. It is the world’ s largest city classification and ranking with 331 benchmark cities classified, and top 125 cities ranked in 2011. Continue reading
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This paper of Mark Deakin (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) is chapter of the book “City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications” (IGI Global, October 2011) and develops the notion of the intelligent city as the smart provider of electronically-enhanced services. Continue reading
IDC Energy Insights, a Massachusetts-based consultancy, released a study on the smartest cities in Spain. The IDC defines a “smart city’ as a local entity ‘” a district, city, region or small country ‘” which takes a holistic approach to employ information technologies with real-time Continue reading
The 2011 “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard” presents economic and financial data of the world’s top 1400 companies ranked by their investments in research and development (R&D). The Scoreboard collects information on the top 1000 EU Continue reading
The eChallenges e-2011 Conference & Exhibition will take place on 26 ‘“ 28 October in Florence, Italy. This
is the twenty-first in a series of annual conferences supported by the European Commission, which bring
together Continue reading
AT&T in cooperation with Cooper Power Systems offer to utility companies a smart grid solution that operates on wireless data network. Smart grids combine “smart meters”, wireless technology, sensors and software Continue reading
STREETLINE developed a solution for finding available parking places in a city combining a sensor network, applications, and analytics. Users can find a parking space and make a reservation. Continue reading