ZES · opportunity Zones for innovation EcosystemS governance
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2019-10-01 → 2022-09-30
- EU contribution
- €269,003
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
opportunity Zones for innovation EcosystemS governance
The severe and pressing challenges affecting cities call for the redesign of urban development strategies for pursuing the just, green, and digital transition path towards resilience and sustainability. Therefore, cities are called to detect and activate their relevant resources and target public policies and investments to accelerate the green, digital, and inclusive urban transition. Such a challenge outlines the relevance of urban planning and governance - nowadays influenced by the data-driven perspective - for managing the complexity of transition. In light of the EU's envisaged transition, the understanding of how to create or reinforce the urban innovation ecosystem (UIE) is gaining more relevance as UIEs are central to creating the pre-conditions to make innovation emerge and establish in cities and to leverage transition. Exploring their dynamics and relationships with the context is crucial to address the complexity of the current cities' challenges (i.e., climate change effects, rapid urbanization, social exclusion, COVID response, and geopolitical events.). The overall objective of ZES is to build a logical framework for prioritizing public choices at the city level towards Innovation Ecosystem (IE) rationale and characterize its urban dimension to drive urban planning and governance supporting actions for facilitating the urban transition of cities. By exploring the urban informatics - urban planning nexus, ZES emphasizes the relevance of UIEs for leveraging urban transition towards resilience and sustainability supported by multi-level governance and urban planning and governance flexibility. In this overall framework, the nexus of urban informatics/urban planning and governance that characterizes innovative data-driven planning approaches proves to be paramount for the future design and management of urban transformations.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
The aim of the ZES (opportunity Zones for innovation EcosystemS governance) project is to build a logical framework for prioritizing public choices at city level towards innovation ecosystem (IEs) rationale. The proposal, moves forward the results of the MAPS-LED project (Horizon2020 – MSCA-RISE), which pointed out how urban planning in particular advanced contexts spurs IEs towards physical transformation of urban settlements in order to make the place more suitable for sharing knowledge and allowing innovation dynamics. The proposal intends to build and experiment an evaluation process framework able to support the making decision process in urban context, inasmuch as to create/empower a local IEs, closely connected with the specific assets/values of the urban context. The ZES project will focus on the Boston (US) area (Boston, Cambridge) as exploratory case furthering the investigations of the MAPSLED project, and focusing on IEs assets, governance models/structures and decision- making processes. Investigations will focus on the Boston IE addressing: innovation-oriented policies centered on IEs and their assessment frameworks; the dynamics mapping of IEs assets; the assessment of IEs assets with respect the urban context and the elaboration of an IEs evaluation framework to create/empower local IEs The results of the mapping and assessing activity will constitute the basic information to built up the IEs assessment/evaluation framework and the Smart and Open Dashboard able to support policy-makers and community-based organization in deepening the knowledge of the context and trigger its potentials for the implementation of S3 at local level through place-based and tailored urban comprehensive policies. Such process will strengthen the urban dimension of S3 multiplying the effects of RIS3, strengthening the bridge between regional and local policies and favoring the monitoring phase of the strategy adopted.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI MEDITERRANEA DI REGGIO CALABRIA · Reggio CalabriaCoordinatorItaly
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · Boston MaUnited States
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union