Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems

for Future Internet Research

– Empowered by Smart Citizens!

Mission.
FIREBALL brings together different players to
exploit the linkage between Smart Cities, Living
Labs and Future Internet for Connected Smart
Cities Innovation.
What can Smart Cities be about?
• Usage of digital spaces and ICT to enhance the city and the city life
• Digital dimensions of cities – the new intelligence of cities
• Internet as medium for organizing collective intelligence of cities
• The city as an innovation space for Future Internet research and development
• Digital agendas for future city innovation strategies
• Smart people and Smart technology – making cities become Smarter together!
Key drivers from Smart Cities of Future Internet Open Innovation.
• Socio-economic ambitions of large cities, but also city marketing
• Need for connectedness (cities – rural areas – regions)
• Broadband deployment experiences, need for applications pull after the infrastructure
• Technology push. Need to create experimentation environments to stimulate
innovation
• Driving network development
• Impact of Internet infrastructure on business attractiveness of cities
• Need to create open innovation environments to attract business and
knowledge centres
Main target groups of FIREBALL CA.
• Cities developing Smart/Intelligent city strategies
• Large companies developing platforms and applications for Smart Cities
• Researchers and experts performing research on the subject
Smart Cities and FIRE.
• The Living Lab community
Smart Cities represent demanding users, innovation drivers and
testbeds for the emerging technologies and experimentation with
multiple devices and systems – involving the citizens of the cities!

Smart Cities and Living Labs.

The Living Lab participatory processes combine both the strengths
of collective intelligence and innovation capacity of people and the
mediating role of ICTs in organising global value chains of suppliers
and customers – Living Labs are Open Innovation Ecosystems of
Smart Cities

Topics adressed.
• Creation of synergies and cooperation among different research and innovation
communities related to the Future Internet

• Identification and access to common assets for Connected Smart Cities Innovation
exploring Future Internet opportunities

• Creation of a Connected Smart Cities Innovation Network of advanced Smart Cities in

Europe – exploring challenges how open innovation can support the
uptake of Future Internet-enabled services in Smart Cities
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Expected results Meet up 2010.
from FIREBALL. June:

FIREBALL at Eurocities meeting in Linköping – Sweden
FIREBALL at ICE 2010 in Lugano – Switzerland
• A European-wide community of Future Internet Innovation constiuencies July: FIREBALL at FIRE-week in Barcelona – Spain
(FIRE, Living Labs and Smart Cities)
September: FIREBALL at ICT2010 in Brussels – Belgium
• A common vision and shared agenda by these constiuencies
• Showcases to represent innovative uses and future needs of October: FIREBALL at Knowledge Society Forum in Birmingham – UK
Future Internet in Smart Cities November: FIREBALL at the Connected Smart City Mayor meeting
• Identification of common concepts, methodologies, tools and processes in Helsinki – Finland
among the different contituencies to work together for
December: FIREBALL at FIA in Ghent – Belgium
Future Internet Innovation
• A Connected European Smart Cities Network
• A roadmap and action plan for exploring
Future Internet Innovation for Smart Cities

FIREBALL pioneering organisations.

Core partners: Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Aalto University Economics, European Society of
Concurrent Enterprising Network, Manchester City Council, Amsterdam Innovation Motor, ESADE Business School,
Alfamicro, Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Lisboa E-Nova, City of Helsinki, INRIA, Dimes, IBBT, URENIO, University of
Oulu, Media and Network cluster, Barcelona City Council
Supportive partners: City of Brussels, City of Stockholm, City of Nice, City of Luleå, City of Oulu, Region of Sicily,
City of Agueda, Project Panlab
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Welcome to

Empower
Let´s make the FUTURE SMART CITIES come true TOGETHER!
Welcome and Share Yours and Others Smart Cities knowledge and vision!
Join the evolving landscape of the Connected Smart Cities Network!
Welcome and tell your Smart City story!
What is Your Smart City vision?
Share your assets for Connected Smart Cities evolution!

www.fireball4smartcities.eu