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Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments

Soe, Ralf-Martin / Schuch de Azambuja, Luiza / Toiskallio, Kalle / Nieminen, Marko / Batty, Michael

By exploring and defining characteristics of a smart city research and innovation centre, we contribute to the discussion on smart city development capacity. To do so, using a qualitative method, we review definitions of the concept and map international groups and institutes affiliated with this domain. Our main result is an overview of global research centres dealing with smart cities. One of the key implications of this paper is that instead of a strict definition, the important aspect appears in the framing provided by the complex real-life challenges that require and enable cross-disciplinary research, even though the concept keeps evolving.

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Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments

Soe, Ralf-Martin / Schuch de Azambuja, Luiza / Toiskallio, Kalle / Nieminen, Marko / Batty, Michael

By exploring and defining characteristics of a smart city research and innovation centre, we contribute to the discussion on smart city development capacity. To do so, using a qualitative method, we review definitions of the concept and map international groups and institutes affiliated with this domain. Our main result is an overview of global research centres dealing with smart cities. One of the key implications of this paper is that instead of a strict definition, the important aspect appears in the framing provided by the complex real-life challenges that require and enable cross-disciplinary research, even though the concept keeps evolving.

Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments

Soe, Ralf-Martin / Schuch de Azambuja, Luiza / Toiskallio, Kalle / Nieminen, Marko / Batty, Michael

By exploring and defining characteristics of a smart city research and innovation centre, we contribute to the discussion on smart city development capacity. To do so, using a qualitative method, we review definitions of the concept and map international groups and institutes affiliated with this domain. Our main result is an overview of global research centres dealing with smart cities. One of the key implications of this paper is that instead of a strict definition, the important aspect appears in the framing provided by the complex real-life challenges that require and enable cross-disciplinary research, even though the concept keeps evolving.

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Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments

Contributors:

Soe, Ralf-Martin (author) / Schuch de Azambuja, Luiza (author) / Toiskallio, Kalle (author) / Nieminen, Marko (author) / Batty, Michael (author)

Published in:

Urban Research & Practice ; 15 ; 112-154

Publication date:

2022-01-01

Size:

43 pages

ISSN:

1753-5069 , 1753-5077

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2021.1998592

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

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Unknown

Keywords:

smart city , centres of excellence , urban research and innovation , multidisciplinary , experiments

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