Areas of Expertise
Smart City Strategies for Growth, Sustainability, Safety
Comprehensive consulting services for the development of forward-looking smart city strategies, integrating global best practices and cutting-edge methodologies for strategic intelligence & futures thinking. Vision & priority setting; evidence-based intervention logic; action plan and flagship projects; implementation with clear milestones, budgets, and governance.
Carbon-Neutral Smart Cities
Design and implementation of climate-neutral city contracts, net-zero city districts, positive energy districts, and self-sufficient urban areas. Integration of building technologies, smart systems, locally produced renewable energy, and nature-based solutions to achieve carbon neutrality, supported by environmental monitoring systems to track progress toward climate neutrality.
Smart Green Ecosystems: Transition Models
Digital and green technologies to drive the transformation of area-, activity-, and network-based urban ecosystems. New organisational models for urban ecosystems—encompassing production clusters, service hubs, supply chains, city districts, utility networks, and innovation spaces—to accelerate smart and green transitions towards higher efficiency and sustainability.
Digital Platforms Design and Development
Designing and deploying cutting-edge digital platforms for the engagement of complementors and users across diverse domains of services. Actor-centric solutions that propel growth, liveability, pollution reduction, and sustainability. Decision-making and governance through user and stakeholder engagement, data-driven decisions, and AI-powered governance.
Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Ecosystems
Design and development of agent-based models (ABMs) to simulate operations and transitions of smart city ecosystems. Netlogo ABMs for carbon neutrality, shared mobility, and innovation ecosystems. Experimentation in hybrid sandboxes, assessment of what-if scenarios, benchmarking outcomes, and identification of optimal and innovative solutions.
Urban and Regional Monitoring, Analytics, Visualisation
Advanced tools for assessing urban/regional performance via selected indicators, analytics, and dashboards. Includes monitoring frameworks, balanced scorecards, and international benchmarks to support performance modelling, data-informed governance, and track progress in sustainability and development.
Innovation Systems Analysis and Assessment
Data-driven mapping and analysis of regional and sectoral innovation systems. Includes analysis of systemic components and conditions (R&D, funding, production capacity, market making), performance benchmarking, intelligence capabilities, and evaluation to enhance innovation capacity and align with global innovation and sustainability goals.
Innovation Strategy Design
Strategies for territories propelling technology and innovation, innovating cities and regions, innovation strategies, smart specialisation strategies (RIS3/RIS4), DIP (digital-institutional-physical) environments for innovation, platforms for innovation, Gen-AI and data-driven innovation, measuring policy effectiveness and long-term innovation impact.
Collaborative and Platform-Based Innovation
Design of sector-wide and ecosystem-level innovations. Identification of shared challenges, opportunities for joint innovation, promotion of collaborative R&D, and development of platform-based models that enable large-scale collaborative transformation across industries and services for the benefit of a large number of organisations.
Solutions for innovation policy and strategy
Digitally supported systems of innovation is a current trend for improving the innovation performance of cities and regions. The Online S3 Platform provides 28 software applications and 4 roadmaps, all open source, and shows different ways in which software, datasets, and web spaces can support the design of innovation policy and the governance of Smart Specialisation Strategies.

29 applications for the desing of RIS3

The Mini S3 Roadmap

Roadmap for EDP implementation

Specialisation Roadmap

Vertical Roadmap
ICOS Intelligent cities software repository
The open Intelligent City Software and Solutions Repository (ICOS) is an initiative to gather and disseminate smart city applications in municipalities, computer scientists, generic users and their communities.
More than 140 applications have been registered into ICOS, which can support solutions for (1) the innovation economy, (2) quality of life in cities, (3) optimisation of urban networks and infrastructure, and (4) city management and governance.
By entering the ICOS website you can be informed about available applications, may of which are open sources, and can be installed and customized for any city.








