funding human smart cities and the smart specialisation role

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FundingHuman Smart Cities and the Smart Specialisation Role

FundingHuman Smart Cities and the Smart Specialisation

RoleJesse Marsh

Atelier Studio [email protected]



EU Budget 2014-2020



The Silent Revolution

SOURCE: LANDABASO, 2010

FP 7 + CIP2007-2013



Smart Specialisation• Focus on innovation to address crisis• Policy as a process

Orientation to results

• Open, participatory, emergentSocial innovation

«Entrepreneurial discovery»

• Place-based approach to specialisationRegional strengths, macro-regional ecosystems



Social Innovation• Social demand innovations

Respond to social demands that are traditionally not addressed by the market or existing institutions and are directed towards vulnerable groups in society.

• Societal ChallengesFocuses on innovations of society as a whole through the integration of the social, the economic, and the environmental.

• Systemic changeThe most ambitious and to an extent encompassing the other two, is achieved through a process of organisational development and changes in relations between institutions and stakeholders.

BEPA, «Empowering people, driving change: Social innovation in the European Union», 2011



Innovation Landscape

Source: Marsh 2013 (FormezPA – S3 Sicily)



Territorial innovation

Source: Marsh 2011 (ERDF TC MED MedLab Project)

Territorial Innovation

ICT (as KET)

Territorial Capital



Territorial aspects • What can we learn by looking at the territorial

dimension?ESPON: European Spatial Planning Observatory Network

• Do different qualities of Territorial Capital lead to different potentials for «humanness»?

• How should this potential be used to steer funding strategies for Human Smart Cities?Place-based Smart Specialisation



Are powerful cities the smart ones?

• Europe’s great cities are the gateways for international networks…

• ESPON FOCI Study



Where does innovation happen?

• Territorial diffusion spreads differently from different cities …

• ESPON KIT Study



Are only big cities smart?

• Diffusion of Small and Medium Sized Towns…

• ESPON TOWN Study



Where are people moving to?

• Migration and visiting populations in Europe…

• ESPON ATTREG Study



And where are they staying?

• Retention rates for different age groups…

• ESPON ATTREG Study



HSC as Research

Sector Policies

(energy, transport, health

etc.)

ICT(Open data, apps,

platforms)

Social Innovation

(participatory action, citizen engagement)



Funding in H2020• Sector Policies – ICT

• Societal Challenges with ICT, eg ICT for Energy

• Sector applications in ICT research eg FI, cloud, Big data

• Sector Policies – Social Innovation• CIP integrated into H2020

• SSH integrated into Societal Challenges

• Social Innovation – ICT• Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social

Innovation

• Living Labs support found in eGovernment

Can Research be “territorialized”?



HSC as Urban Regeneration

R&D Priorities

(ICT as FET)

Territorial Cohesion

(Urban inclusion)

Social Innovation(innovating social

policies)



Funding with Structural Funds• Smart Specialisation for Regional OPs

Digital agenda promoting open government

Smart Cities often identified as policy priority

• Social innovation in ESFFunding lines dedicated to urban services

• Urban Agenda (City OPs)Emphasis on Territorial Cohesion

• JESSICA fundsSupporting access to ERDF funding

Innovation capacity evaluated as urban capital

Is territorial innovation really being understood?



Living Labs for Policy• Engaging local actors to support «discovery»

of a territory’s innovation potential• Reading and harnessing hidden energies in

local territories and communities• Creatively identifying opportunities for

institutional and process innovation• Co-designing new models for employment,

well-being, and inclusiveness• Using our money to fund what is actually

«human» and what is actually «smart»



Thank you for your attention

Jesse MarshAtelier Studio Associato

[email protected]

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