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

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorSoe, Ralf Martinen_US
dc.contributor.authorSchuch de Azambuja, Luizaen_US
dc.contributor.authorToiskallio, Kalleen_US
dc.contributor.authorNieminen, Markoen_US
dc.contributor.authorBatty, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen
dc.contributor.groupauthorComputer Science Professorsen
dc.contributor.groupauthorComputer Science - Human-Computer Interaction and Design (HCID) - Research areaen
dc.contributor.groupauthorComputer Science - Software and Service Engineering (SSE) - Research areaen
dc.contributor.groupauthorProfessorship Nieminen M.en
dc.contributor.organizationTallinn University of Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity College Londonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-24T07:23:10Z
dc.date.available2021-11-24T07:23:10Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description| openaire: EC/H2020/856602/EU//FINEST TWINS
dc.description.abstractBy 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.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationSoe, R M, Schuch de Azambuja, L, Toiskallio, K, Nieminen, M & Batty, M 2022, 'Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments', URBAN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 112-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2021.1998592en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17535069.2021.1998592en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-5069
dc.identifier.issn1753-5077
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/111183
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-2021112410342
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/856602/EU//FINEST TWINSen_US
dc.relation.fundinginfoThe aim of this study is to review the smart city as an evolving and broadening theme and map it with smart city-related research groups in different urban data and technologies centres globally. There are different approaches to smart and sustainable cities in different regions ranging from planned cities in Asia to co-creative ones in Europe. This paper identifies conceptual and operational characteristics for a smart city centre with combined international and regional impact. To do so, first, we perform a literature review of smart city as a keyword domain; second, we map this with established academic centres that work on SC. Thus, one contribution of the paper is an updated list of smart city research groups globally, including identification of respective themes and approaches (i.e. overview of academic centres and research groups). Furthermore, this paper provides an overview of what kind of research relates to smart city research, independent from the thematic label, and introduces a research and innovation agenda for a novel smart city centre. The practical aim of the paper is to use the learnings in the forming of a recently founded smart city centre of excellence with a significant grant funding from the European Union, not to mention the considerations of the future orientation of the centre. There are three other groups that are significant in size. In the UK, there is the Urban Big Data Centre in the University of Glasgow (UBDC), jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 2014. UBDC is based at the University of Glasgow, but the centre has associates at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, University of Reading, University of Sheffield, and University of Cambridge. Their focus is primarily on assembling and integrating big data that pertains to cities, but there are a variety of projects involving urban science, transportation, and the wider issues of privacy in data for smart cities. UBDC’s key research strands are urban impacts of COVID-19; education and skills; housing and neighbourhoods; transport and infrastructure; and urban governance. In the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Futures Institute is based more on digital humanities than on digital cities, but there are several important themes that relate to innovative uses of computers in cities.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesURBAN RESEARCH AND PRACTICEen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 15, issue 11, pp. 112-154en
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.subject.keywordcentres of excellenceen_US
dc.subject.keywordexperimentsen_US
dc.subject.keywordmultidisciplinaryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsmart cityen_US
dc.subject.keywordurban research and innovationen_US
dc.titleInstitutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experimentsen
dc.typeA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi
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