ESADE: Making Cities Smarter
The Science Business website reported that two new projects are working to get Europe’s public authorities to embrace open innovation. ‘Open Cities’ and ‘Commons for Europe’, coordinated by ESADE Business School in Barcelona and part-funded by the EU, aim to encourage local authorities to engage with young, promising software developers and to cooperate with their public counterparts. ESADE will work with participating public authorities to identify the needs of public administrations and citizens, promote the creation of new applications and share the results openly among multiple European cities.
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