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Operationalising the Concept of the Smart City as a Local Innovation Platform: The City of Things Lab in Antwerp, Belgium

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This paper gives an overview of two divergent approaches to what the Smart City can be, based on evolutions in the market today. A very top-down view on the Smart City sees corporate interest as a main concern, while purely bottom-up initiatives face challenges of scale, incentive and sustainability. This paper then proposes a point of view that bridges these two and makes an appeal for the city as a local innovation platform that balances different interests. Rather than remaining theoretical, we introduce the City of Things Lab that explicitly puts this approach into practice.

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  1. iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 9, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Nils Walravens

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  1. Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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  2. Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    Francisco Chicano

  3. Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    Gabriel Luque

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Walravens, N. (2016). Operationalising the Concept of the Smart City as a Local Innovation Platform: The City of Things Lab in Antwerp, Belgium. In: Alba, E., Chicano, F., Luque, G. (eds) Smart Cities. Smart-CT 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9704. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39595-1_13

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