On September 27th, we had the pleasure to receive seven representatives from Zdunska Wola’s City Council at CLSBE. Zdunska Wola is a small industrial city in Poland built in the XIX century. Famous for their beers and textile industry, they are now on the path to implement digital technologies to develop the city. They
What makes customers use green products in a truly sustainable way? Green product innovation aims to design products that deliver environmental benefits to customers, such as CO2 emission reductions, improved recyclability of products, and energy savings. However, would higher adoption of green products automatically lead to the realization of a product’s environmental benefits? This
On July 15, Henriette Närger and René Bohnsack presented the Carbon Footprint Challenge as finalists of the 'Innovationspreis der Landeshauptstadt München'. The Carbon Footprint Challenge is a gamified survey application to motivate and teach users how to improve their carbon footprint, developed by our very own master student Mariana Nunes. With the contest, the city
That was GRONEN2020: Some Facts & Figures 113 participants, 52 synchronous paper presentations, 58 hours live-stream, and 8 virtual bars and socials - that was GRONEN2020!! A quick calculation shows that we saved about 65 t of CO2 (580 kg of CO2 x 113 participants), 678 hours of travel, and almost 130.000
Are you passionate about sustainability, the role of digital technologies for making our cities smarter, or keen on debating new trends in the circular and shared economy? As part of the GRONEN Conference 2020, the leading European academic conference on management and sustainability, the Smart City Innovation Lab hosts an exciting student challenge. We want
In our last article, we compiled seven tips and tricks to give online presentations. Currently, the Smart City Innovation Lab is in the process of organising the GRONEN conference, which will be fully virtual. What started as a pilot project – virtual conferencing to decrease environmental impacts and foster inclusiveness – became now the format of the whole event. There are
In the light of COVID-19, companies and academic institutions face the challenge of keeping daily business, teaching and research events going. We at the Smart City Innovation Lab believe, the conversation must go on! Thanks to the world of the Internet, it is possible to connect people from everywhere in the world. While work places
New-to-the-world sustainable technologies often suffer from slow adoption in the market. Think, for instance, about electric cars which are often said to disrupt the market, yet they are (still) only adopted at a slow pace. One reason is that customers fail to appreciate the added value sustainable innovations create compared to existing alternatives. Management scholars
In a recent post, we introduced the Business Model Replication Tool that supports you in screening different markets to internationalize your energy business model. Once you have identified one or several markets where you seek to internationalize the challenge remains on how to actually roll-out your energy business model and conquer the market. Where
Last week, Dr. René Bohnsack was invited to talk about new business models in smart cities at the yearly CBRE Portugal Outlook event. He presented the research of the Smart City Innovation Lab, including the first AI-powered business model analysis concept. This imitation learning algorithm that is able to recognize a business model from
