Smart Cities and the Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems Conceptual Framework: The Case of Portugal

Selada, Catarina

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55577-9_8

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“…The selected cases are related to ongoing projects or collaborations, and our sampling seeks to cover different types of environments for governance structures. We also tried to choose cases that represent an appropriate size and involve different types of stakeholders, based on a quadruple helix model [102,103] involving public actors at different levels (international, national, and regional-local), the private sector, universities (considering their multilayered spatial ties [104]), and civil society/citizens. The synchronization and coordination of planning activities between national, regional, and municipal levels suggest that all sectors function across different levels of society.…”

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The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

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A pragmatic and polity-focused solution for governing a smart city in the direction of sustainability is still missing in theory and practice. A debate about whether a smart city is a pragmatic solution for modern challenges or just a technology-led urban utopia is entangled with the vexed issue of governance. While ‘smart governance’ has drawn unprecedented interest, the combination of its conceptual vagueness and broad applications couple with a lack of focus on its underlying international and local political paradigms have raised concerns about its utility. This study contributes to restoring attention to the original concept of governance, its differences with governing and government, and the potential challenges resulting from its functionality in its real, multi-layered, and complex contexts. This paper explores the intellectual connection between governance and smart cities, from both an empirical and a conceptual/analytical perspective. From the empirical side, we examine which actors, processes, and relational mechanisms at different levels that have had an impact on the initiation of smart cities in three Norwegian cities: Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø. We illustrate how the structural sources of the interests, roles, and power in smart city initiatives have caused governance to emerge and change, but have also affected the goals designed by specific actors.

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The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

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“…This study offered novel contribution to literature and practice by building the evidence base of how citizen engagement can be practically embedded in smart city activities. The lessons learnt need to be shared with practitioners so that citizen engagement is beyond a tick box exercise, as Israilidis et al [32] and Selada [52] suggest is the key to developing knowledge sharing and learning capabilities for smart city success.…”

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“…Firstly, an improved approach should consider citizens as active agents (actors) within the development process of smart cities. Citizens can collaborate in co-creating smart cities together with the private sector, governments and knowledge institutes following the quadruple helix approach [52]. Secondly, citizens can bring value to the table when they are part of the design and innovation process in smart cities, but this takes skilful facilitation.…”

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Citizen Engagement for Co-Creating Low Carbon Smart Cities: Practical Lessons from Nottingham City Council in the UK

2020

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Cities constitute three quarters of global energy consumption and the built environment is responsible for significant use of final energy (62%) and greenhouse gas emissions (55%). Energy has now become a strategic issue for local authorities (LAs) and can offer savings when budget cuts have threatened the provision of core services. Progressive LAs are exploring energy savings and carbon reduction opportunities as part of the sustainable and smart city agenda. This paper explores the role of citizens in smart city development as “buildings don’t use energy: people do”. Citizens have the potential to shape transitions towards smart and sustainable futures. This paper contributes to the growing evidence base of citizen engagement in low carbon smart cities by presenting novel insights and practical lessons on how citizen engagement can help in smart city development through co-creation with a focus on energy in the built environment. A case study of Nottingham in the UK, a leading smart city, is analysed using Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation. Nottingham City Council (NCC) has pledged to keep “citizens at the heart” of its plans. This paper discusses learnings from two EU funded Horizon 2020 projects, REMOURBAN (REgeneration MOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation) and eTEACHER, both of which aimed to empower citizens to reduce energy consumption and co-create smart solutions. Although these two projects are diverse in approaches and contexts, what unites them is a focus on citizen engagement, both face to face and digital. REMOURBAN has seen a “whole house” approach to retrofit in vulnerable communities to improve liveability through energy efficiency. User interaction and co-creation in eTEACHER has provided specifications for technical design of an energy saving App for buildings. eTEACHER findings reflect users’ energy needs, understanding of control interfaces, motivations for change and own creative ideas. Citizens were made co-creators in eTEACHER from the beginning through regular communication. In REMOURBAN, citizens had a role in the procurement and bidding process to influence retrofit project proposals. Findings can help LAs to engage demographically diverse citizens across a variety of buildings and communities for low carbon smart city development.

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“…[1], as well as a way of modernizing city operations (urban engineering) [2], and governance (openness and transparency) [3]. The smart city's triple and quadruple helix [4] models have, thus, largely become a reference. The vast majority of works show that the principal smart dimension of a smart city is based on a better integration of the digital transition into complex urban dynamics (economic, socio-political, and environmental) [5], as well as on a fundamental renewal of citizen engagement modalities [6].…”

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When Design Fiction Meets Geospatial Sciences to Create a More Inclusive Smart City

Blacutt

Roche

2020

Smart Cities

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Smart cities are especially suited for improving urban inclusion by combining digital transition and social innovation. To be smart, a city has to provide every citizen with urban spaces, public services, and common goods that are effectively affordable, whatever the citizen’s gender, culture, origin, race, or impairment. Based on two design workshops, the “Vibropod” and the “Pointe-aux-Lièvres”, this paper aims at highlighting the contributions of design fiction to the improvement of the spatial capability of hearing impaired people. This research draws its originality from both its conceptual framework, built on an interdisciplinary and intersectoral composition of arts and sciences, and its operational approach, based on the use of the DeafSpace markers and the TRIZ theory (Russian acronym for Inventive Problem Solving Theory) principles. The two design fiction workshops demonstrate that considering the singularity of the human being as an actual acoustic material constitutes an innovative opportunity to improve the role of universal design in a smart city project. By reversing the classic posture, and defining disability by looking at characteristics of the environment rather than as limits of the people themselves (their bodies or their senses), this research proposes an innovative way of addressing smart city inclusivity issues. This paper shows how increasing spatial enablement and having better control of spatial skills can offer deaf people new skills to improve the use of technology in support of urban mobility, as well as give them tools for feeling safer in urban environments.

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Smart Cities and the Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems Conceptual Framework: The Case of Portugal

Cited by 32 publications

References 7 publications

The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

Citizen Engagement for Co-Creating Low Carbon Smart Cities: Practical Lessons from Nottingham City Council in the UK

When Design Fiction Meets Geospatial Sciences to Create a More Inclusive Smart City

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