Thursday, 22 March, 2012
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I recommend listening closely to this speech by Adam Greenfield, founder of Urbanscale and one of the people with the clearest ideas about the role technology can play in urban life. As a pioneer of urban computing, his book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing -you can read a review I wrote some weeks ago- is a re...
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
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I have just completed a series of posts about the smart city reviewing the most significant elements: the conceptual confusion between its energy and environmental management approach and issues related to digitalapps and data, the role big companies are playing to market their urban technological solutions, new urban developments th...
Monday, 1 November, 2010
Nature has published a special issue with different articles and interactive data visualization tools covering the relationship between science and cities. Some items are worth reading:
Cities: the urban equation, which serves as a summary and presentation of the articles from the special issue, defining the importance of location of scientific a...
Tuesday, 4 May, 2010
The concept of economic globalisation has expanded and transformed. Phenomena such as outsourcing production are now just one of the multiple aspects within the framework of possibilities. On the other hand, the rapid pace of technological change demands the constant updating of competitive skills in regions, countries and businesses....
Thursday, 8 April, 2010
Over recent years much has been said about knowledge communities at the European Research Agency (ERA), thanks to the launch of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. A Knowledge Community is a structured, legal and financial collaborative association of teams distributed internationally but with a common subject matter. The mai...
Thursday, 25 March, 2010
A conference entitled "User Driven Innovation in the Healthcare Sector",was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, which has presented the results of two cross-border project open innovation in the health sector made up of three regions of Denmark Sweden and Norway (respectively Midtjylland, Skane and Helse Bergen). Both projects, Innovation4Care and "New Me...
Thursday, 11 February, 2010
Having spent the weekend in Lisbon listening to the most promising Fado singer in the Club de Fado, the fado cry reminded me that the unsuccessful Lisbon Agenda phases out this year.
Today on February 11th, the European Council president Mr Van Rompuy will call for an informal summit to come up with a re-launch strategy of the Lisbon Agenda....