Short description: The overarching objective of this panel is to consolidate efforts in innovative forms of public-private collaboration and issue-based, data-driven value creation in local ecosystems.
Date: 04.11.2024 | 14.00 - 15.30
Location: Mercury room
Description:
The panel will discuss innovative forms of collaboration in the smart city ecosystem from the perspective of the open governance paradigm. Many successful use cases of smart cities involve a multitude of actors engaged in public and private consumption, production, education, research, entertainment, and professional activities (Appio et al. 2019). A multi-stakeholder ecosystem perspective on urban innovation frameworks has gained traction and is considered to benefit society. Our approach points to the logic of a cooperation model associated with the design and development of innovative city services, which complements the public sector with companies, academia, and citizens. Innovation management literature has long discussed the role played by innovation ecosystems in stimulating innovation and economic growth highlighting their spatial dimension, but less is known on smart city ecosystem, and on the conditions under which it is possible to realize a convergence of public and private goals, as well as accomplish economic, environmental, and social sustainability objectives. In this theoretical framework, innovative forms of public-private engagement have been rather underdeveloped in the definition of the concept of smart city ecosystem. The open governance paradigm (Meijer 2019) focuses specifically on the element of collaboration for the production of information around shared values.
Organiser: Alessandro Paciaroni, Sveva Ianese - The Lisbon Council
Speakers:
- Riku Leppänen - Scientific programme officer at the European Commission
- Mario Lovrić - EDIAQI
- Natalia Oprea - USAGE
- Mide de Roode - TNO