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Papers by Nicos komninos
Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, 2000
This report summarises the findings of a team of experts in support of the preparation smart spec... more This report summarises the findings of a team of experts in support of the preparation smart specialisation strategies (S3) as a basis for the 2014-20 programming of the Structural Funds. The experts were asked to provide policy advice and methodologi cal recommendations in order to ensure the following seven key points are addressed by the Greek authorities: an appropriate stakeholder involvement and the organisation of the entrepreneurial discovery process of testing possible new areas, an identification of areas of current and potential strength, that innovation and knowledge-based development priorities are set, an identification of the optimum policy mix, an outward looking of the strategy and the promotion of critical mass, the strategy produces sy nergies between different policies and funding sources appropriate governance and administrative set-ups and capacities to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the strategies in a coherent multi-level governance sy stem....
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2012
Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Bu... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be selfarchived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".
The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions, 1988
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia - MM '13, 2013
Intelligent communities,and cities belong to an emerging movement,targeting the creation of envir... more Intelligent communities,and cities belong to an emerging movement,targeting the creation of environments ,that improve,cognitive ,skills and ,abilities to learn ,and innovate. They represent ,environments ,that enable superior cognitive ,capabilities and ,creativity to be collectively constructed from combinations,of individual cognitive skills and information systems that operate in the physical, institutional, and digital spaces of cities. Two,academic ,traditions have ,been ,feeding ,the discussion concerning intelligent communities,and cities: the literature on innovative ,environments ,and ,the planning of digital cities. Following an introduction ,on the meaning of ICs, we discuss the structuring of innovative environments such as clusters, technology
Αρχιτέκτονες, Jan 11, 2006
Αρχιτέκτονες, Αρ.60(2006). ...
FIREBALL White Paper, EU, 2012
Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital, 2002
At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exc... more At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent Cities focuses on these environments of innovation, and the major models (technopoles, innovating regions, intelligent cities) for creating an environment-supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge-based development. The introduction and the first chapter deal with innovation as an environmental condition, and with the geography and typology of islands of innovation. The next three parts focus on the theoretical paradigms and the planning models of the 'industrial district', the innovating region', and the 'intelligent city', which offer three alternative ways to create an environment of innovation.
International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 2009
Intelligent cities (communities, clusters, districts, multi-cluster territories) outline a new pl... more Intelligent cities (communities, clusters, districts, multi-cluster territories) outline a new planning paradigm pertinent for urban-regional development and innovation management. This paper attributes the rise of intelligent cities in the globalisation of innovation networks, which appears in multiple forms in global technology markets, innovation and R&D offshoring, global technology transfer, new product co-development and the subsequent needs for online environments of global collaboration. By developing sector-focused, ...
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 07), 2007
Abstract The paper mainly looks at the digital dimension of intelligent cities. It starts from th... more Abstract The paper mainly looks at the digital dimension of intelligent cities. It starts from the concept of intelligent cities as territories that link human, collective and artificial intelligence, and describes four IT platforms that sustain the knowledge functions of these cities. The platforms facilitate operations in the fields of strategic intelligence, technology dissemination, new product development, and product promotion. These are fundamental innovation processes based on the skills of the population of the cities, the institutions involved in ...
Capitalist Development and Crisis Theory: Accumulation, Regulation and Spatial Restructuring, 1989
Résumé: Smart Cities innovation ecosystems are based on an infrastructure forinnovation. This inf... more Résumé: Smart Cities innovation ecosystems are based on an infrastructure forinnovation. This infrastructure is built upon what within FIREBALL we are calling" common assets": resources of various types that can be selected, combined, shared and used by those who want to engage in living labs innovation projects. In this report, common assets types such as technical infrastructures, userdriven open innovation methods and tools, test bed facilities and usercommunities are identified and characterized based on a number of cases. ...
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international workshop on Wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities - WiMobCity '14, 2014
As city authorities are becoming increasingly aware of the concepts 'intelligent city' and 'smart... more As city authorities are becoming increasingly aware of the concepts 'intelligent city' and 'smart city' they undertake initiatives for designing new e-services that address challenges of development and sustainability more efficiently. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on application development, while the whole city planning process and involvement of citizens and end-users in the design and implementation of e-services for urban renewal is still a largely unknown field. After a literature review on smart city strategies and planning as well as a description of a pilot case for the creation of a smart city district, which was implemented in the framework of the PEOPLE project 1 , the present paper concludes with a holistic approach for planning smart cities and designing e-services collaboratively in the form of a strategic planning roadmap.
European Journal of Innovation Management, 2014
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to show how national and regional authorities in south Euro... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to show how national and regional authorities in south Europe in a period of crisis perceive and set in motion research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation, and the options that these strategies offer to overcome the current financial crisis. The paper comprises five sections. Section one is an introduction to smart specialisation concepts and guiding principles and underlines key differences to previous perspectives of specialisation. Then, three sections focus on respective cases studies in Greece, Slovenia, and Cyprus, dealing with the elaboration of smart specialisation strategies in countries of precarious and stagnating innovation systems. The case studies are organised around key aspects of the actual smart specialisation perspective, such as the selection of sectors for specialisation, bottom-up governance and private sector leadership, engines of competitiveness, etc. and show the obstacles encountered in setting effective RIS strategies under conditions of crisis. The last section underlines main challenges to address, such as the readiness and credibility of public authorities to design and implement sound RIS3 strategies, the willingness of companies to be involved in strategic planning, the availability of private funds for new investments, innovation and diversification during crisis, the drivers of specialisation that lead to global competitiveness and growth.
Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, 2000
This report summarises the findings of a team of experts in support of the preparation smart spec... more This report summarises the findings of a team of experts in support of the preparation smart specialisation strategies (S3) as a basis for the 2014-20 programming of the Structural Funds. The experts were asked to provide policy advice and methodologi cal recommendations in order to ensure the following seven key points are addressed by the Greek authorities: an appropriate stakeholder involvement and the organisation of the entrepreneurial discovery process of testing possible new areas, an identification of areas of current and potential strength, that innovation and knowledge-based development priorities are set, an identification of the optimum policy mix, an outward looking of the strategy and the promotion of critical mass, the strategy produces sy nergies between different policies and funding sources appropriate governance and administrative set-ups and capacities to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the strategies in a coherent multi-level governance sy stem....
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2012
Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Bu... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be selfarchived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".
The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions, 1988
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia - MM '13, 2013
Intelligent communities,and cities belong to an emerging movement,targeting the creation of envir... more Intelligent communities,and cities belong to an emerging movement,targeting the creation of environments ,that improve,cognitive ,skills and ,abilities to learn ,and innovate. They represent ,environments ,that enable superior cognitive ,capabilities and ,creativity to be collectively constructed from combinations,of individual cognitive skills and information systems that operate in the physical, institutional, and digital spaces of cities. Two,academic ,traditions have ,been ,feeding ,the discussion concerning intelligent communities,and cities: the literature on innovative ,environments ,and ,the planning of digital cities. Following an introduction ,on the meaning of ICs, we discuss the structuring of innovative environments such as clusters, technology
Αρχιτέκτονες, Jan 11, 2006
Αρχιτέκτονες, Αρ.60(2006). ...
FIREBALL White Paper, EU, 2012
Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital, 2002
At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exc... more At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent Cities focuses on these environments of innovation, and the major models (technopoles, innovating regions, intelligent cities) for creating an environment-supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge-based development. The introduction and the first chapter deal with innovation as an environmental condition, and with the geography and typology of islands of innovation. The next three parts focus on the theoretical paradigms and the planning models of the 'industrial district', the innovating region', and the 'intelligent city', which offer three alternative ways to create an environment of innovation.
International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 2009
Intelligent cities (communities, clusters, districts, multi-cluster territories) outline a new pl... more Intelligent cities (communities, clusters, districts, multi-cluster territories) outline a new planning paradigm pertinent for urban-regional development and innovation management. This paper attributes the rise of intelligent cities in the globalisation of innovation networks, which appears in multiple forms in global technology markets, innovation and R&D offshoring, global technology transfer, new product co-development and the subsequent needs for online environments of global collaboration. By developing sector-focused, ...
3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 07), 2007
Abstract The paper mainly looks at the digital dimension of intelligent cities. It starts from th... more Abstract The paper mainly looks at the digital dimension of intelligent cities. It starts from the concept of intelligent cities as territories that link human, collective and artificial intelligence, and describes four IT platforms that sustain the knowledge functions of these cities. The platforms facilitate operations in the fields of strategic intelligence, technology dissemination, new product development, and product promotion. These are fundamental innovation processes based on the skills of the population of the cities, the institutions involved in ...
Capitalist Development and Crisis Theory: Accumulation, Regulation and Spatial Restructuring, 1989
Résumé: Smart Cities innovation ecosystems are based on an infrastructure forinnovation. This inf... more Résumé: Smart Cities innovation ecosystems are based on an infrastructure forinnovation. This infrastructure is built upon what within FIREBALL we are calling" common assets": resources of various types that can be selected, combined, shared and used by those who want to engage in living labs innovation projects. In this report, common assets types such as technical infrastructures, userdriven open innovation methods and tools, test bed facilities and usercommunities are identified and characterized based on a number of cases. ...
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international workshop on Wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities - WiMobCity '14, 2014
As city authorities are becoming increasingly aware of the concepts 'intelligent city' and 'smart... more As city authorities are becoming increasingly aware of the concepts 'intelligent city' and 'smart city' they undertake initiatives for designing new e-services that address challenges of development and sustainability more efficiently. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on application development, while the whole city planning process and involvement of citizens and end-users in the design and implementation of e-services for urban renewal is still a largely unknown field. After a literature review on smart city strategies and planning as well as a description of a pilot case for the creation of a smart city district, which was implemented in the framework of the PEOPLE project 1 , the present paper concludes with a holistic approach for planning smart cities and designing e-services collaboratively in the form of a strategic planning roadmap.
European Journal of Innovation Management, 2014
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to show how national and regional authorities in south Euro... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to show how national and regional authorities in south Europe in a period of crisis perceive and set in motion research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation, and the options that these strategies offer to overcome the current financial crisis. The paper comprises five sections. Section one is an introduction to smart specialisation concepts and guiding principles and underlines key differences to previous perspectives of specialisation. Then, three sections focus on respective cases studies in Greece, Slovenia, and Cyprus, dealing with the elaboration of smart specialisation strategies in countries of precarious and stagnating innovation systems. The case studies are organised around key aspects of the actual smart specialisation perspective, such as the selection of sectors for specialisation, bottom-up governance and private sector leadership, engines of competitiveness, etc. and show the obstacles encountered in setting effective RIS strategies under conditions of crisis. The last section underlines main challenges to address, such as the readiness and credibility of public authorities to design and implement sound RIS3 strategies, the willingness of companies to be involved in strategic planning, the availability of private funds for new investments, innovation and diversification during crisis, the drivers of specialisation that lead to global competitiveness and growth.