Innovation and Infrastructure in Limerick

An article on the Ulir website about the Irish city of Limerick noted that present-day energy infrastructure is still reliant on carbon-based fuels and we now know that this must change. What replaces carbon-based fuels is the question being explored in Limerick. A collaborative operating structure supports an Open Innovation 2.0 ecosystem where citizens, business, academia, and government can co-create and prototype solutions and approaches responding to issues faced in the clean energy transition. Open challenges will be held where stakeholders will have access to open city data and citizen-sourced data generated through implementation of the Participation Playbook. The activities will be supported by active learning processes to enable a permeable culture of co-creation in the city.

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