Smart Cities and Cross Innovation

Steve HardingBirmingham City University

EU perspective

EU 2020 – Smart Sustainable Inclusive Growth

7 Flagship Initiatives

Innovation Union – Creativity to drive innovation

Green Paper on CCIs – Spill over effects

Innovation at the city levelInter disciplinary approaches

Breaking down Silos

Grass roots innovation

Distinctiveness of cities

Cross Innovation “We understand a process by which creative industries share information, collaborate and work with other growth sectors to promote new thinking”

Cross innovation

11 cities across the EU

Each shares experience

Local Implementation Plans

Policy clinics to share understanding

Each city focus on a Matrix – CCIs and growth sectors

Internationalisation now through 2014

The Cross Innovation Project

Four Themes for Cross Innovation:

Space

Brokerage

Smart Finance

Culture based

www.cross-innovation.eu

CCI Sector

DesignMobile and Social Media

Games, Multimedia and Web

ArchitecturePerforming and Visual Arts

Audio-Visual

Music Open Data

Growth Sector

Environment and Energy 6 6 3 5 2     1

Healthcare (Life Sciences and Medical) 5 5 5 3 1 1 1 1

Manufacturing 6 3 2 1 1 2 1  

Retail and Leisure 2 4 2 1 3 1 2  

Financial Services 4 4 3 2   1    

Society and Social Environment 2 5 1 1 3      

Education 1 4 4   1     1

Tourism 2 1 4 1 2 1 1  

Heritage 2 1 3 3 1     1

ICT 1 1 3 1 2 1 1  

Heat Map from the cities

Stockholm -School of Entrepreneurship ; academic facility for applied entrepreneurship education from 5 Stockholm academic institutions www.sses.se

Rome- Promoting innovation; matching entrepreneurs, cross disciplinary academics, designers and venture capitalistswww.officinainnovazione.it

Substrakt – app for Library of Birminghamwww.dozensandtrails.com

Digital Life Sciences and the Maverick TV ConsortiumDesign, development and distribution of digital solutions for the health sector http://www.digitallifesciences.co.uk

Sampad -Digital design and heritageInteractivos Madrid www.sampad.org.uk/

Smart cities

From the EU and policy trends with an emphasis on post industrial

From a city region perspective

From the city specific and the ecosystem needed to support innovation