INTELSPACE Innovation Technologies S.A. and URENIO Research of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have established a research group that collaborates on smart and intelligent cities, innovation systems, and innovation strategies. INTELSPACE was founded in 2005 by researchers from URENIO Research, as a spin-off company focusing on the design and development of intelligent / smart cities, intelligent districts, cyber-physical systems, and other types of intelligent spaces.
INTELSPACE offers engineering, IT, and consulting services in the field of intelligent / smart cities and systems of innovation. The company specializes in the design and development of physical spaces and digital environments sustaining innovation in cities addressing problems of growth and employment, violence, vandalism and aggression, safety and security, air pollution, climate change, optimisation of infrastructures, and participatory governance.
The expertise of the company is in two interrelated areas (1) innovation systems and strategies, in particular cyber-physical systems of innovation in which software applications and datasets drive disruptive innovation, social innovation, awareness and specialised services, and platforms that support the entire cycle of innovation strategy from context analysis to performance measurement, and (2) intelligent / smart cities, and the underlying formation and evolution of smart ecosystems, ontologies, knowledge functions and architectures of connected intelligence, smart city strategy and governance, design and development of applications for growth, safety, and sustainability.
Innovation systems
Intelspace focuses on the development of smart innovation environments, living labs, Internet platforms, and user-driven innovation ecosystems. Moreover, it provides advisory services for innovation strategy development, especially with regards to initiatives of European regions to develop innovation strategies for smart specialisation.
Intelligent cities
Intelspace has participated in various research projects related to the design and development of intelligent (smart) city strategies and applications. Our primary concern is the architecture of city intelligence, and the way digital components (broadband networks, sensors, data, software) connect to physical and institutional components to improve the economy, living, and governance of cities.
Partners
INTELSPACE is working with an international network of scientists, innovation consultants and IT experts from academic institutions of the European Union and the US, and conducts research dealing with the creation of physical, institutional, and digital environments for innovation-led urban development.