Innovation

Innovations for Sustainability and Climate Neutrality: Towards a European Model
20 October 2023

URENIO Research introduces a new Topical Collection in Discover Sustainability on Innovations for Sustainability and Climate Neutrality: Towards a European Model. Discover Sustainability is a Springer Nature open-access journal within the Discover Series, publishing research across all fields relevant to sustainability, and with an Impact Factor 2.6 (2002). The journal [...]

Innovation ecosystems

HCI International 2024 session “Intelligence Reimagining Innovation Ecosystems”
21 September 2023

HCI International 2024, jointly with the affiliated Conferences will take place at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington DC, USA (29 June – 4 July 2024). URENIO Research organises, in framework of DAPI, the virtual session “Intelligence Reimagining Innovation Ecosystems”. The session highlights the substantial shifts in urban and regional innovation ecosystems, [...]

Cities Knowledge Economy

Is the New Economic Geography still Alive in 2023? Smart Algorithmic Places and AI Systems
1 September 2023

Organized within the framework of ERSA 2023 Congress, this event is a collaborative effort between the Regional Science Academy and Paul Krugman, Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, and Yongda Yu. The day’s agenda features three paper sessions encompassing a total of ten papers, a special session dedicated to the scientific significance [...]

Digital and Green Transition

Twin Transition and changing patterns of spatial mobility
27 July 2023

MOBI-TWIN, a Horizon Europe project dedicated to unraveling the dynamics of spatial mobility under the digital and green transition and its significant impact on European Union regions. The project aims to comprehend the intricate patterns of mobility and leverage this knowledge to foster regional governance and prosperity. [...]

Publications on Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Call for papers: Redefining cities and planning under the twin smart and green transition
1 June 2023

This special issue of LAND, an open access journal, centers around the ongoing transformation of cities and planning in response to the concurrent digital and green transition. The digital (or smart) transition is a major driver of the current transformation of cities and refers to the application of smart systems, [...]

Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions

Connected intelligence for the smart green transition: call for papers
1 June 2023

URENIO Research organises a session at the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023) that will take place at the AC Bella Sky Hotel and Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-28 July 2023. HCII2023 will run as an ‘in-person’ conference with the option for remote participation. The title of [...]

Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Should be afraid of GPT? Are you afraid of Excel?
21 May 2023

What is inside a GPT model? I asked GPT-4 a few questions about its memory and algorithm. Here is the discussion. Q1: Can we describe the ChatGPT algorithm as deep learning, backpropagation, attention mechanism based algorithm? [...]

Publications on Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Spatial Planning in the Digital Age
30 April 2023

As part of the 19th International Book Fair of Thessaloniki (May 4-7, 2023), Kritiki Publications organises a discussion on the collective volume Spatial Planning in the Digital Age, edited by Nikolaos Gavanas, Athina Giannakou, Anastasia Panori, Alexandros Sdoukopoulosc, Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m., in the “Philological [...]

Innovation ecosystems Innovation Strategies

Transformation of Industry Ecosystems in Cities and Regions: A Generic Pathway for Smart and Green Transition
20 August 2022

Published in Sustainability, this research paper focuses on pathways towards the digital and green transition. We assess a generic pathway for the transformation of industry ecosystems in cities and regions based on processes of “prioritisation”, “ecosystem identification”, and “platform-based digital and green transition”. Our interest in the transformation of activity-based [...]

Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions

Universality and Interoperability Across Smart City Ecosystems: Best paper DAPI-HCII 2022
2 July 2022

Contemporary smart cities involve a very high number of software applications and hardware devices that connect to the physical and social space of cities and form complex ecosystems in different knowledge and activity domains (transportation, logistics, healthcare, housing, industry, governance, social care, and many more). In this context, smart cities [...]