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Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2023). Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems. In HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023 (467-480). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48047-8_31

Many in the academic community find claims made about the virtuous nature of smart cities dumbfounding. In that sense left not only bewildered by the claims which academics make about the virtues of smart cities, but the audacious nature of the expec... Read More about Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems.

Tiny Housing Development: A Vaccine for Unaffordable Housing Delivery in Africa (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Osunsanmi, T., Deakin, M., Jaradat, S., & Olawumi, T. (2023). Tiny Housing Development: A Vaccine for Unaffordable Housing Delivery in Africa. In Towards a sustainable construction industry: The role of innovation and digitalisation (370-381). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22434-8_37

The menace of unaffordable housing delivery has spread like a virus across the countries within the African continent. The virus has infested numerous activities and is responsible for the slum development and other social vices on the continent. Tow... Read More about Tiny Housing Development: A Vaccine for Unaffordable Housing Delivery in Africa.

Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, P. Laconte, & S. Costa (Eds.), Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2017 (403-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75774-2

More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publica-tion, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since then, the literature discussing this new concept and the ICT-oriented urban-i... Read More about Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research.

Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (176-185)

Smart Specialisation has generated a paradigmatic change in regional innovation policies and the European Union has shown a strong interest in supporting research that investigates the developments of this new science-related topic. This paper helps... Read More about Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research.

The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2018). The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (94-103)

This article suggests the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EPD) that underlies Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) is not so much caught in the transition from the Triple to the Quadruple Helix, as rooted in a divisio... Read More about The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix.

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.

Power to the Population? the population census under review. (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Killick, L., Duff, A., Hall, H., & Deakin, M. (2016). Power to the Population? the population census under review. In ACTIS 2015 (27-34)

Many regard the population census as the backbone of national statistics. It is also regarded as a national institution; a data source held in high regard by the academic, policymaker, historian and genealogist alike. However, technological advances,... Read More about Power to the Population? the population census under review..

Developing sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M. (2005). Developing sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation.

Sustainable communities are seen as offering the opportunity to manage growth in developments that are plan-led and which are environmentally-friendly. This paper examines the development of sustainable communities in the South East Wedge of Edinburg... Read More about Developing sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation..

A research roadmap for sustainable information cities. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Curwell, S., Deakin, M., Hamilton, A., Paskaleva-Shapira, K., Soubra, S., & Turner, J. (2004). A research roadmap for sustainable information cities. In P. Cunningham, & M. Cunningham (Eds.), eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies