Green and sustainable innovations in Smart Cities: Business Models and
Ecosystems
Nice, 6th February, 2015
It is now well recognized that eco-innovations are drivers of economic and
social progress at both macro and micro levels. From the micro level point
of view, eco-innovation has become an innovation, business and strategy
challenge for firms. From the macro level point of view, national and
supranational governments make eco-innovations a key economic and
sustainable challenge. In Europe for example, the European Commission
adopted an ambitious program (the Intelligent Energy-Europe -IEE- program)
in order to encourage and stimulate the development of innovative services
satisfying one or the three sustainability challenges: energy efficiency,
renewable energy and green mobility. One main characteristic of these
green, sustainable and eco-innovations is that they are for the larger part
based on a wide range of information and communication technologies (ICT).
IT are deployed in large urban cities, stressing there the role of local
governments in achieving urban growth in a sustainable sense for
metropolitan and medium-size cities. These cities, which became the
territory of smart, green and sustainable innovation deployment and
diffusion, are labelled “Smart Cities”. Although the concept of “Smart
Cities” is today clearly a buzz word, it however refers to major economic,
strategic and innovation challenges for industrial firms, SMEs and local
governments. The eco-system of firms investing in such innovations is in
fact profoundly transformed. Customers and local governments are key actors
of the innovation eco-system and have a complex role in green innovations’
ecosystems. Whereas the necessary development of new innovative business
models to explore different options with the aim to involve users is well
underlined, the way such new business models make firm’s strategies and
ecosystems evolve is not stressed enough from the strategic management point
of view. In other words, a close relationship is observed between local
government’s policies and strategies adopted in order to favor
eco-innovations development and deployment on the one hand, and firms’
strategies and their new competitive landscapes resulting from the
industrial convergence which is impulsed by the design process of green and
IT innovations on the other hand. But this relationship is not sufficiently
addressed by the management strategic approach.
The workshop encourages theoretical and empirical papers related to the
business model and ecosystem of smart innovations and welcomes papers with
multidisciplinary approaches. Papers may cover the strategy and management
of smart and sustainable eco-innovations analysis and address one or several
problematics related to its business model.
Topics considered can include - but are not limited to - the following issues:
- Innovations in smart cities
- Smart and Green innovation ecosystems
- Business models of green innovations
- Platform strategies
- Multi-sided markets
- Regulation challenges for green innovation business models
- The role of public policies
- Customer-centric approach
Submission
Abstract must be addressed to the following addresses:
amel.attour@gredeg.cnrs.fr and
burger@unistra.fr
Submission should include the author’s name, affiliation, address, phone
number, email and biographical notes. It also includes: the title of the
paper, keywords (approximately 5 words) and 10 main references. All
submissions will be refereed by at least two blind reviewers during the
workshop.
Publication Plan
Following the workshop, authors of the selected high quality papers will be
invited to submit their papers for inclusion in a special issue “Green and
sustainable innovations: business models and ecosystems” of the Journal of
Strategy and Management (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jsma.htm). Submitted
papers should not have been previously published or be currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere. The special issue is planned for
Issue 3, 2015.
Author guidelines can be found at
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/index.htm.
Meeting Organization
Accepted papers will be presented in a one-day workshop to be held in 6th
February 2015 at Mediterranean Institute of Risk, Environment and
Sustainable Development (IMREDD), Immeuble Nice Premium, 1-3 boulevard
Maurice Slama, 06000 Nice.
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Each presented paper will be reviewed by at least one participant of the
workshop and will be openly discussed among participants.
Scientific Committee
Cécile AYERBE, GREDEG (UMR 7321), University of Nice
Lise ARENA, GREDEG (UMR 7321), University of Nice
Laurent BACH, BETA (UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg
Pierre Jean BARLATIER, Tudor, Luxembourg
Ylenia CURCI, BETA (UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg
Ali DOUAI, GREDEG (UMR 7321), University of Nice
Nathalie DUBUS, Orange Labs-Sophia Antipolis
David GRANDADAM, Mosaic, HEC Montréal
Laure MOREL, ERPI, ENSGSI, University of Lorraine
Paul MULLER, INRA, AgroSup-Dijon
Nathalie LAZARIC, GREDEG (UMR 7321), CNRS
Christophe LERCH, BETA (UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg
Julien PENIN, BETA (UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg
Veronique SCHAEFFER, BETA (UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg
Marcus WAGNER, University of Wuerzburg
Fees and registration
The workshop is free from fees, but prior registration is required.
Important Dates
Submission of abstract: 15th October, 2014
Acceptance notification: 15th November, 2014
Full paper due: 5th January, 2015
Academic Workshop: 6th February, 2015
Selection notification acceptance for JSM special issue: 1st March, 2015
JSM special issue publication: Issue 3, 2015
ISSN: 1755-425X
Online from: 2008
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