Intermediaries for knowledge transfer in integrated energy planning of urban districts

Lindkvist, Carmel; Juhasz-Nagy, Eszter; Nielsen, Brita Fladvad; Neumann, Hans-Martin; Lobaccaro, Gabriele; Wyckmans, Annemie

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.020

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“…The remaining papers (i.e. nineteen) can be grouped into four clusters labeled as follows: business models for smart cities (Abbate et al, 2018;Brock et al, 2018;Schiavone et al, 2018;Van den Buuse and Kolk, 2018); applications to tackle specific smart cities challenges (Amer et al, 2018;Grimaldi et al, 2018;Hopkins and McKay, 2018;Lex et al, 2018;Moustaka et al, 2018;Tanguy and Kumar, 2018); actions and roles of stakeholders of the smart cities triple/quadruple helix (Ardito et al, 2018;Corsini et al, 2018;Dupont et al, 2018;Engelbert et al, 2018;Lindkvist et al, 2018;Van der Graaf and Ballon, 2018); policies for smart cities (Caragliu and Del Bo, 2018;Contreras and Platania, 2018;Hamidi et al, 2018). Concerning the first cluster -business models for smart cities - Abbate et al (2018) explore the activities and strategic goals of twentyone small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in eight different European countries that took part to FrontierCities, one of the nine FIWARE (Future Internet-ware) Accelerators focused on smart cities.…”

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“…Authors argue about those socio-technical imaginaries that put citizens at the core of a participatory smart city revolution. Still concerning energy planning practices in urban districts, Lindkvist et al (2018) examine the role of intermediaries for knowledge transfer in early, progressed, and implemented project stages. Findings from ongoing projects based in Norway, Spain, France, Sweden, and Austria, show that intermediaries are absent in the fuzzy front end of the project while showing up later as problem solvers.…”

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Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges

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Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges

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“…The challenges of PEDs address the difference between sociotechnical disciplines and segregation of their strategies, interests and perspectives, and challenges of governance in which citizens can contribute to the co-creation of solutions within this context. This calls for an intermediary which encompasses both perspectives, to create a counterbalance and engender consensus over important decisions [21,22]. The public sector represents an intermediary of social innovation in the urban environment [23].…”

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Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects

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The Positive Energy District (PED) concept is a localized city and district level response to the challenges of greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy transition. With the Strategic Energy Transition (SET) Plan aiming to establish 100 PEDs by 2025 in Europe, a number of PED projects are emerging in the EU member states. While the energy transition is mainly focusing on technical innovations, social innovation is crucial to guarantee the uptake and deployment of PEDs in the built environment. We set the spotlight on Norway, which, to date, has three PED projects encompassing 12 PED demo sites in planning and early implementation stages, from which we extract approaches for social innovations and discuss how these learnings can contribute to further PED planning and implementation. We describe the respective approaches and learnings for social innovation of the three PED projects, ZEN, +CityxChange and syn.ikia, in a multiple case study approach. Through the comparison of these projects, we start to identify social innovation approaches with different scopes regarding citizen involvement, stakeholder interaction and capacity building. These insights are also expected to contribute to further planning and design of PED projects within local and regional networks (PEDs in Nordic countries) and contribute to international PED concept development.

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“…Technological developments and increased attention to maintain existing buildings as well as the challenges of including social value in communities highlights the role of Urban FM to ensure connectivity across these areas which is currently being neglected in urban thinking. While studies highlight the complexity of cities and their multiple dimensional aspects in light of sustainability necessarily means a cross-disciplinary approach (Dixon et al, 2014) but also requires an intermediary (actor or process) to bring multiple dimensions together (Lindkvist et al, 2019a). Jensen et al (2013) indicated that the success of a collaborative relationship leads to the success of value delivering to the stakeholders.…”

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Urban facility management

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2020

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Purpose This paper aims to illustrate where facility management (FM) is having an impact on the urban environment and what other work needs to be done to easier facilitate achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This is important for practices as it highlights opportunities where the FM discipline can develop and to research to illustrate where the discipline is going. The societal benefit is that we see Urban FM as an intermediator between citizens, public and private practices providing the platform of how they can work together for mutual benefit. Design/methodology/approach The method used is a literature review, looking latest state-of-art in the mentioned field has been assessed and the developments along with potential future research focuses, have been identified. The current scope to expand FM role were also taken into consideration from a recent workshop at the EuroFM conferences 2019 and 2020, several presentations at the CIB World Congress Hong Kong 2019, CIRRE 2018 and 2019, and special Facilities’ issue, illustrating how FM works within Urban environments and the potential contribution the discipline makes on neighbourhoods, communities and broader city-scale. Findings The authors present how FM fits in with a Smart and Sustainable City context by positioning communities as core for meeting SDGs, but they often fall out of needs perspective for hard and soft services. Since 2018, the authors have intensely worked on this topic developing conference papers at both a European and international level. The topic of Urban FM is growing in importance based on out interactions at these conferences and interactions with FM network groups. In addition, the authors have been identifying gaps, with communities that are currently not being met by current urban practice perspectives but could be met through an Urban FM practice perspective. They have engaged an educational perspective of Urban FM by developing workshops, summer schools with students from around Europe and new courses. With a specific focus on this concept, it is important to branch out ideas and disseminate of what a more structured urban FM is. Research limitations/implications Smart and Sustainable Cities has been a focus for many years now from various perspectives such as urban planning and technology providing solutions and frameworks on how to manage increasing populations in cities. What these studies neglect is a service-oriented perspective supporting the livability requirements and social values of future and current communities living in cities which goes beyond operating and maintaining infrastructure of cities. This neglect which highlights the need to develop an understanding where FM expands its role in the urban environment. Originality/value The aim is to highlight solidify research that is happening in this area where FM links to the urban environment and the benefit it has in terms of sustainability. It illustrates to practice and teaching that the concept of FM is relevant within an urban environment, creates stronger connections within and between citizens and cities and illustrate how Urban FM is necessary in facilitating community facilities.

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Intermediaries for knowledge transfer in integrated energy planning of urban districts

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges

Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges

Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects

Urban facility management

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