Just published (August 18, 2011) by Accenture, this report of the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, looks at the challenges of global urbanization. “The flood of people to the cities is placing huge stress on cities’ energy, road and water infrastructures, and even their ability to provide clean air. Smart cities that optimize these scarce resources Continue reading
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The CITIES special issue of Scientific American (September 2011) celebrates the city as a solution to the problems of our age. Smarter Cities is the focus: “The most hopeful impact of city life may be its effect on the mind. Humans are social animals; we draw stimulation from other minds close at hand. Plato and Socrates both lived in fifth-century b.c. Athens, a city-state. Continue reading
Intelligent Buildings International (a journal of Taylor & Francis) just published the Special Issue “From Intelligent to Smart Cities” edited by Mark Deakin and Husam Al Waer. The issue includes an Editorial and five papers offering a coherent and critical view about current developments in the field of intelligent and smart cities.
To commemorate C. K. Prahalad’ s work, strategy+business published an article that was in progress at the time of his death in April 2010. C.K. Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan’ s Ross School of Business and the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits Continue reading
The Innovation Union Flagship Initiative is at the core of the Europe 2020 strategy guiding Europe towards a more competitive, sustainable and inclusive economy. It sets out how Europe will tackle smart growth objectives through a strategic approach integrating research and innovation instruments. Continue reading
Terry Young, President of Beyond the First World Corporation, outlined a series of models of university-industry cooperation, and valorisation of university IPR. Research universities he says is a recent development, Continue reading
This Conference sets out to understand the experiences of municipalities that have signed up to the smart city agenda by studying the efforts made to create a smart people-based innovation Continue reading