RIS 13: Innovation and governance in and for smart and sustainable cities, 27.05.2022

FinEst Centre for Smart Cities research group on Governance of Smart Cities presents itself! The group is co-led by Erkki Karo (TalTech), Veiko Lember (TalTech) and Ralf-Martin Soe (Founding Director of FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, TalTech). Our research and innovation actions centre around the following topics and research questions:

- Economics and innovation capacities of smart cities: How can cities become smart in the sense of supporting technological development, innovation and employment in local communities as part of smart city initiatives?

- Sustainability and governance of smart cities: How can cities become smart in the sense of sustainable development, including goals of climate neutrality, environmental and technological self-sufficiency?
Politics and public policies in smart cities: How can cities become smart in the sense of providing functional citizen-participation platforms for public policy and service co-design and co-delivery as the basis for legitimacy and happiness?

- Internationalisation and integration of smart cities: How can cities become smart in the sense of political, policy, service and technological integration, collaboration and/or interoperability while maintaining local development concerns from innovation capacities and sustainability to participation and legitimacy?

3:59 Short presentation of the main areas and interests of the whole research group by Erkki Karo
12:27 Luiza Schuh de Azambuja: presentation on her paper “Smart Sustainable City Roadmap as a Tool for Addressing Sustainability Challenges and Building Governance Capacity”
50:12 Jaanus Müür: presentation of his paper co-authored with prof. Erkki Karo: “From experimentation to exploitation: how the design of technology pilots affects learning. Lessons from autonomous bus pilots.”
1:27:14 Orkun Basaran: presentation of paper “Happiness in cities – Moments-centered city”


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