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Nextdoor.com: a private social network that brings digital and physical space together
Nextdoor is a private, neighborhood-based social network, currently available in the US. Registered neighbors can use Nextdoor to:
The technological battle for Smart Cities; A. Townsend for WOBI
A. Townsend, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, talked in yesterday’s WOBI video about top-down and bottom-up smart city solutions.
Five Co-creation Examples
Co-creation initiatives are deployed more and more frequently. InnovationManagement.se presents an aggregation of five co-creation examples to get inspired and research the opportunities that a more human and collaborative economy offers.
Connecting Universities to Regional Growth
DG REGIO published a guide to improve the involvement of Universities in regional development. The Guide has been prepared by Professor John Goddard of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
Social Media and the City
IBM published a paper that explores how can the wealth of information being generated by social media help us better understand how our cities function and create smarter cities in the process?
Open Innovation: What’s Behind the Buzzword?
Innovation has become a key competitive differentiator in today’s crowded, globalized marketplaces. For that reason, it has crept to the top of the corporate agenda. In this context, the concept of open innovation has begun to attract considerable attention both in company boardrooms and business schools.
Incentivizing Innovation for Cities
Open Source Cities website spoke with Sascha Haselmayer, General Director and Co-Founder of Living Labs Global about the Living Labs Global Award and incentivizing service innovation in cities through competitions and open source citizen engagement.