Different cases of public disagreement in different European countries have shown recently
that perusing a thorough planning process is by no means a guarantee for a broad public …

The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to
living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector …

Purpose–An empirical testing on IBM smart cities projects was applied so as to demonstrate
that the combination between the use of Internet of Things (IoT) and the implementation of …

Cities nowadays face complex challenges to meet objectives regarding socio-economic
development and quality of life. The concept of “smart cities” is a response to these …

Abstract Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are public spaces where local authorities engage
citizens to develop innovative urban services. Their strength and popularity stem from a …

Abstract This Special Issue of the Journal of the Knowledge Economy focuses on how
advanced European cities develop strategies towards becoming “smart cities”, based on the …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

Smart city-policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating they want to bring
about citizen-centered smart cities. Yet, it often remains unclear what exactly that means …

This special issue on" Living labs: concepts, tools and cases" comes 10 years after the first
scientific publications that defined the notion of living labs, but more than 15 years after the …

While smart cities have the potential to monitor and control the city in real-time through
sensors and actuators, there is still an important road ahead to evolve from isolated smart …