Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (53)

Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model (2022)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2022). Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model. Triple Helix, 9(1), 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1163/21971927-bja10030

In the past decade there have been a series of articles on the status of Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices. In responding to the most recent of these from Leydesdorff and Lawson Smith (2022), this article examines the respective status of the Tri... Read More about Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model.

Sustainable Smart City Transitions: Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms (2022)
Book
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Zhang, X., Batty, M., de Jong, M., Santi, P., & Appio, F. P. (2022). Sustainable Smart City Transitions: Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms. New York City, NY: Routledge

This book enhances the reader’s understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions. Drawing on empirical evidence stemming from existing smart city research, the bo... Read More about Sustainable Smart City Transitions: Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms.

Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Mora, L. (2020). Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(4), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1868738

This paper closes a gap in the literature on smart cities relating to the metrics of future Internet-based developments. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study that overcomes the methodological shortcomings that otherwise exist i... Read More about Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation.

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Zhang, X., Batty, M., de Jong, M., Santi, P., & Appio, F. P. (2021). Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1834831

This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and syste... Read More about Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective.

Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems (2020)
Report
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., Hairstans, R., Duncheva, M., Calcagno, C., …Lang, V. (2020). Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems. Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, Scottish Enterprise. and the Scottish Government

The purpose of this project is to provide evidence of the potential contribution offsite construction offers to address the challenges faced by the affordable housing sector in Scotland. Funding for the project is drawn from the Construction Scotland... Read More about Increasing offsite housing construction in Scotland: An evidence base to support new policy and systems.

How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Angelidou, M. (2019). How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study. Journal of Urban Technology, 26(2), 89-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2018.1525265

Overcoming the dichotomous nature of smart city research is fundamental to providing cities with a clear understanding of how smart city development should be approached. This paper introduces a research methodology for conducting the multiple-case s... Read More about How to Overcome the Dichotomous Nature of Smart City Research: Proposed Methodology and Results of a Pilot Study.

Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2018). Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 17(1), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.14650/88816

This paper summarizes the outcomes of a literature review on smart cities and goes on to provide an overview of the critical insights it offers. Bypassing mainstream academic readings of the subject and offering a critique of the Smart City Ranking,... Read More about Smart Cities: Metrics for a Future Internet-based Governance of Urban and Regional innovation Systems.

Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2017). Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation. In P. Ketikidis, & A. Solomon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (529-539)

Smart specialisation can be considered an entrepreneurial discovery process which makes it possible to identify where regions can benefit from specialising in specific areas of science and technology. The European Commission suggests the development... Read More about Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation.