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Recent data on the globalisation of innovation activities show a series of favourable trends.
“OECD investment in R&D climbed to USD 818 billion in 2006, up from USD 468 billion in 1996. Continue reading…

Books, journal special issues, papers, and conference presentations, dealing with  theories, concepts, and applications on intelligent cities, developed by URENIO.

BOOKS

Komninos N. (2008) Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks, London and New York, Routledge.
Link: Routledge

Komninos N. (2002) Intelligent Cities: Innovation, knowledge systems and digital spaces, London and New York, Taylor and Francis, Spon Press.
Link: Taylor and Francis

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SPECIAL ISSUES

IJIRD (2009) “Intelligent Clusters, Communities and Cities: Enhancing innovation with virtual environments and embedded systems”, Special Issue, Guest Editor, N. Komninos, International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development,  Vol.1, No4.
Link: IJIRD

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PAPERS

Komninos, Nicos and Sefertzi, Elena (2009) “Intelligent Cities: R&D offshoring, web 2.0 product development and globalization of innovation systems” Paper presented at the Second Knowledge Cities Summit, Shenzhen, China, 5-7 November 2009. Download paper: Intelligent Cities-Shenzhen 2009-Komninos-Sefertzi. Download pp presentation: Intelligent Cities-Shenzhen 2009-Komninos-Sefertzi

Komninos, N. (2009) “Intelligent cities: Towards interactive and global innovation environments”, International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, Vol. 1, No.4 pp. 337 – 355.
Link: IJIRD

Κομνηνός, Ν., Πάσσας, Ι., και Τσαρχόπουλος, Π. (2008) “Στρατηγική οικονομική ευφυΐα: Το Internet στην υπηρεσία της καινοτομίας”, Η Πληροφορική στη Βόρειο Ελλάδα. Download: stratigiki eyfyia-internet kai kainotomia

Komninos, N., Passas, I., Tarani, P., and Tsarchopoulos P. (2007) “Four platforms for intelligent cities”, IE07 Conference Proceedings, 486-494.
Link: IEEE

Komninos, N. (2007) “Cidades Inteligentes”, Interface Administracao Publica Local e Regional, Anuario 2007, 5-9.
Download: cidades-inteligentes

Κομνηνός, Ν. (2006) “Έξυπνες πόλεις: Συστήματα καινοτομίας και τεχνολογίες πληροφορίας στην ανάπτυξη των πόλεων”, Περιοδικό Αρχιτέκτονες, No 60, 72-75.
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Κομνηνός, Ν., Πάσσας, Ι., και Τσαρχόπουλος, Π. (2006) “Ευφυείς πόλεις”, Η Πληροφορική στη Βόρειο Ελλάδα, No 2, 13-14.
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Komninos N., (2006) “Intelligent by Design: Technology and intelligent cities in Saudi Arabia”, Think: Global Issues in Perspective, Νο 9, 6-13.
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Komninos, N., Sefertzi, E., and Tsarchopoulos P. (2006) “Virtual innovation environment for the exploitation of R&D”, Intelligent Environments 06, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 95-104. (Download:virtual-innovation-environment-for-the-exploitation-of-rd-ie06)
Link: IEEE

Komninos, N. (2006) “The Architecture of Intelligent Cities”, Intelligent Environments 06, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 1, pp. 53-61. (Download: the-architecture-of-intel-cities)
Link: IEEE

Bourgogne P., Guth, M., Pelayo, E., Halvorsen, K., Komninos, N. Oswaldo, A. (2006) Strategic Intelligence and Innovative Clusters, Regional Council of Lorraine, Interreg IIIC, 1-58.
Download: English:STRATINC-strategic-intelligence – German: STRATINC-strategische-intelligenz- Spanish: STRATINC-inteligencia-estrategica- French version: STRATINC-intelligence-strategique

Komninos, N. (2006) “Intelligent Cities”, The Encyclopedia of Digital Government, Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Malkia (eds), London, Idea Group Reference, 1100-1104.
Link: EDG

Komninos, N. (2006) “Virtual Innovation Environment”, The Encyclopedia of Digital Government, Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Malkia (eds), London, Idea Group Reference, 1601-1605.
Link: EDG

Komninos, N. (2004) “Regional Intelligence: Distributed localized information systems for innovation and development”, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol.28, No 3-4-5-6, 483-506.
Link: IJTM

Κομνηνός, Ν. (2004) “Περιφέρειες αριστείας στην Ευρώπη: το νέο πρότυπο περιφερειακής ιεραρχίας και ανάπτυξης”, Ζητήματα Χωρικής Ανάπτυξης, επιμ. Γ. Καυκαλάς, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Κριτική, 73-105.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Ευφυείς πόλεις: Χωρικοί μετασχηματισμοί των συστημάτων καινοτομίας”, Department of Regional Planning and Development Engineers, Veroia, 13 January 2010.
Download: Intel Cities-Spatial transformation of innovation systems-Veroia

“Ευφυείς Πόλεις: Στρατηγικές για παγκόσμια και διαδραστικά συστήματα καινοτομίας”, 2ο Congress of the Department of City and Regional Planning and Development, Volos, 24-27 September 2009.
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“Thessaloniki Living Lab: Designing and Testing Applications for Intelligent Cities” MEDLAB kick-off meeting, Thessaloniki, 27-28 April 2009.
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“Globalisation of Innovation and policy measures for open systems of innovation”, IRE Workshop, Madrid, 16-18 April 2008.

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“Intelligent Cities: Building 3rd Generation Systems of Innovation”, MSc Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, City – Affiliated Institution of the University of Sheffield, 13 January 2008.
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“Ευφυείς πόλεις: Ένα νέο παράδειγμα ανάπτυξης και σχεδιασμού των πόλεων”, Postgraduate seminar URENIO, 9 November 2007.
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“Four platforms for intelligent cities” 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’07), Ulm, 24-25 September, 2007.
Download: four-platforms-for-intelligent-cities-ie07

“Innovative Clusters and Strategic Intelligence”, STRATINC Final Conference, Brussels, 7 September 2006.
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“Collaborative innovation and inter-regional networks”, EU Conference on Regions for Economic Change – Innovating through EU Regional Policy, Brussels, 12 – 13 June 2006.
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“The Architecture of intelligent cities” 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’ 06), Athens, 5-6 July 2006.
Download: architecture-of-intel-cities-ie06

“META-FORESIGHT: Software Platform and Tools”, Metaforesight Conference on Integrating Intelligence, Caceres, Spain, 6 – 7 October 2005.
Download: metaforesight-caceres-conf

“META-FORESIGHT: Integrating Regional Intelligence”, 4th IRE Plenary Conference
Ljubljana, 7-8 June 2005.
Download: metaforesight-ire-conf-ljubljana

“Περιοχικά Συστήματα Καινοτομίας: Από τα Clusters στις Ευφυείς Περιφέρειες” International Conference on Good Practices of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Thessaloniki, 10-11 December 2004.
Download:clusters-to-intel-cities-orie-conf

Five states—Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey—are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to The 2008 State New Economy Index, released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Continue reading…

The New London Architecture (NLA) space is a center for display as well as a centre for debate and for networking. It is where visitors to London can orientate themselves, where school children can learn about their environment, where communities can be consulted. Continue reading…

The 2007 Booz Allen Hamilton report on Global Innovation 1000 argues that statistical analysis of a representative sample of global innovation 1000 companies divided them into three distinct categories of innovation strategy: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Technology Drivers. Continue reading…

The Intelligent Community Forum announced today its list of the Smart21 Communities of 2009. Eight of the communities were on the 2008 Smart21 list and three were named to the 2008 Top Seven. Ten of the 2009 Smart21 are North American communities, seven are from Europe, two from Asia-Pacific, one from South America, and one from Africa. In addition to individual cities and towns, the 2009 Smart21 includes two counties and two multi-city metropolitan areas. Continue reading…