Funding
Human Smart Cities and
the Smart Specialisation
Role
Jesse Marsh
Atelier Studio Associato
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
jesse@atelier.it
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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EU Budget 2014-2020
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
2
The Silent Revolution
FP 7 + CIP
2007-2013
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
SOURCE: LANDABASO, 2010
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Smart Specialisation
• Focus on innovation to address crisis
• Policy as a process
Orientation to results
• Open, participatory, emergent
Social innovation
«Entrepreneurial discovery»
• Place-based approach to specialisation
Regional strengths, macro-regional ecosystems
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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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 Challenges
Focuses on innovations of society as a whole through
the integration of the social, the economic, and the
environmental.
• Systemic change
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
The 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
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Innovation Landscape
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Source: Marsh 2013 (FormezPA – S3 Sicily)
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Territorial innovation
Territorial
Innovation
ICT (as KET)
Territorial Capital
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Source: Marsh 2011 (ERDF TC MED MedLab Project)
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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
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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Are powerful cities the smart ones?
• Europe’s great
cities are the
gateways for
international
networks…
• ESPON FOCI
Study
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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Where does innovation happen?
• Territorial
diffusion spreads
differently from
different cities …
• ESPON KIT Study
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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Are only big cities smart?
• Diffusion of Small
and Medium
Sized Towns…
• ESPON TOWN
Study
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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Where are people moving to?
• Migration and
visiting
populations in
Europe…
• ESPON ATTREG
Study
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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And where are they staying?
• Retention rates
for different
age groups…
• ESPON ATTREG
Study
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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HSC as Research
Sector
Policies
Social
Innovation
(energy,
transport, health
etc.)
(participatory
action, citizen
engagement)
ICT
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
(Open data, apps,
platforms)
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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
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
• Living Labs support found in eGovernment
Can Research be “territorialized”?
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HSC as Urban Regeneration
R&D
Priorities
Social
Innovation
(ICT as FET)
(innovating social
policies)
Territorial
Cohesion
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
(Urban inclusion)
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Funding with Structural Funds
• Smart Specialisation for Regional OPs
Digital agenda promoting open government
Smart Cities often identified as policy priority
• Social innovation in ESF
Funding lines dedicated to urban services
• Urban Agenda (City OPs)
Emphasis on Territorial Cohesion
• JESSICA funds
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
Supporting access to ERDF funding
Innovation capacity evaluated as urban capital
Is territorial innovation really being understood?
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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
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
• Using our money to fund what is actually
«human» and what is actually «smart»
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Thank you for your attention
Jesse Marsh
Atelier Studio Associato
Funding
Human Smart
Cities and the
Smart
Specialisation
Role
ENoLL Summer School
jesse@atelier.it
Amsterdam, 3 September, 2014
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