Belfast 10 October 2006

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INTA30 - World Urban Development
Congress INTELLIGENT CITIES Project Urban
Policies and Spaces of Innovation
Belfast 10 October2006
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Presentation Structure

• INTELLIGENT CITIES Project
• Urban Policy and Intelligent Cities
• Innovation Hubs as Spaces of Innovation
• Pilot Experiences

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INTELLIGENT CITIES Project
INTELI Inteligência em Inovação, Centro de
Inovação (PT)
DPP Departamento de Prospectiva e Planeamento
(PT)
DGOTDU Direcção Geral do Ordenamento do
Território e Desenv. Urbano (PT)
Fundación Metrópoli (SP)
INTA International Urban Development
Association (NL)
Cardiff University - Cardiff School of City and
Regional Planning (UK)
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INTELLIGENT CITIES Project

• Objectives
• Preparation of guiding lines for a national
  strategy for an urban policy, to be applied to
  the Portuguese case, focusing on the axis
  Competitiveness and Innovation.
• Analysis of new tools of an urban policy centred
  in the linkage between the territorial
  excellence, innovation and urban regeneration
  named as innovation hubs.
• Recommendations associated to the strategies and
  instruments of urban policy and to the planning
  and design of innovation hubs for the Southern
  European countries.

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INTELLIGENT CITIES Project

• Structure

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Urban Policy Knowledge and Innovation
Intelligent Cities
Innovative Cities
Smart Cities
Creative Cities
Digital Cities
Knowledge Cities
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Urban Policy Knowledge and Innovation

• From Investment to Knowledge/Creativity

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Urban Policy Knowledge and Innovation
The innovative cities of the coming age will
develop a creative union of technology, arts and
civics. Sir Peter Hall

• ARTS TECHNOLOGY CULTURE DESIGN ()

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Urban Policy Knowledge and Innovation
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Innovation Hubs Spaces of Innovation
Innovation Hubs Environments of excellence
where business, science and technology, teaching
and training and civil society areas interact
having in mind a sustainable urban development of
the cities and of the surrounding regions.
Science, Technology and Knowledge at the service
of Revitalization and of an Urban Sustainable
Development
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Innovation Hubs Spaces of Innovation

• Key Characteristics
• Strategic vision
• Clusters/ critical activities
• City environment
• Dispersion of resources in network
• Concentration of talents
• Public-private partnerships
• Long-term projects

Live, Work, Learn and Play in the Centre of the
City!
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Innovation Hubs Spaces of Innovation
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Innovation Hubs Spaces of Innovation
The Digital Hub (Dublin)
One North (Singapura)
Helsinki Virtual Village
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Pilot Experiences
Pilot Experiences Pilot cases of innovative
urban interventions in coherence with the
principles of a policy of cities (policy making)
and or with its instruments centred in knowledge
(innovation hubs).
Pilot Projects Intelligent Cities High degree
of knowledge and innovation Public-private
governance model Demonstration effect at
European, national and regional levels
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Pilot Experiences

• City of Guimarães - PT

159.576 inhabitants
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Pilot Experiences
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Pilot Experiences

• Motivation
• Dynamics of University of Minho and its
  Engineering School.
• Existence of a large number of buildings of
  historical value linked with the ancient economic
  activities of Guimarães.
• Strategic location of Couros district with urban
  centrality and a easy connection to new Cultural
  Centre CCVF.
• Urgent need for environmental remediation and
  upgrade.

Vision To develop a platform to foster
economical development based on a sustainable
interaction between innovation, technology and
arts, linked to an intense initiative for
education and training of human capital
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Pilot Experiences
Anchoring Initiatives

• Centre for Advanced Post-Graduate Training
• Technological School CETs - CETUM
• Learning working rooms - LaborUM
• Couros wireless
• Design Centre - DesignUM
• Industrial archaeology and technology exhibitions
  and forum
• Centre for Arts
• Entrepreneurial centre
• Economical activity associated to design or
  knowledge based businesses

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Pilot Experiences

• Classrooms should support the activities of
  effective learning situated, collaborative, and
  active learning. What might such spaces look
  like? Do any such spaces exist yet?
• Future of the Learning Space Breaking Out of
  the Box, By Philip D. Long and Stephen Ehrmann
  (EDUCAUSE Review July/August 2005)

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Contacts

• INTELI Inteligência em Inovação
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail catarina.s_at_inteli.pt
• www.inteli.pt
• www.intelligentcities.pt