Cities as Collaborative Innovation Platforms

Collaborative Innovation with External Actors: An Empirical Study on Open Innovation Platforms in Smart Cities

“…Partnership, networking, and open source are the strategies that relate to the focus of this article. Leminen and Westerlund (2015) introduced a fouroption framework for collaborative innovation in cities, which features a matrix based on who is initiating the collaboration (citizen-initiated versus companyinitiated) Tukiainen, Leminen, and Westerlund (2015) discuss the orchestration of a city as a collaborative innovation platform.…”

Beyond Bureaucracy

“…An example of a living lab is when a city government establishes active dialogues with its citizens and private and public sector actors to co-create, develop, test, and offer service innovations that use a diverse sets of platforms (Tukiainen et al 2015). In developed nations, the high degree of urbanization has left governments, city planners, and economic development managers with the challenge of stimulating innovation to enable growth and improve the lives of their citizens (Tukiainen et al 2015).…”

Editorial: Smart Cities and Regions (December 2016)

“…The discussion on smart cities and regions is expanding rapidly, and more and more practitioners and researchers are involved in the debate McPhee et al, 2015;Tukiainen et al, 2015). We hope that this special issue will further the debate on this topic, and we propose that future research should emphasize the intersection of smart cities and living labs, because these bodies of literature discuss some of the same thematic areas, particularly through living labs facilitated in a city context for the improvement of the daily lives of citizens (e.g., Leminen et al, 2012).…”