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
How to find out what market can potentially be a good fit for your solution and business model? Should you launch in France or maybe in Greece? You could screen through thousands of reports and articles describing the market specifics in each country or consult with a market expert to hear her opinion. The
The Smart City Innovation Lab is delighted to host the GRONEN Research Conference 2020, which will carry the theme “All systems go!? Sustainability in the Digital Age”. Program highlights include, among others, an interactive panel debate on the perils and pitfalls of digitalization for sustainable development and a virtual conferencing pilot. GRONEN 2020 will also
“A city’s environment is shaped not only by people who have an important influence but by everyone who lives or works there” - Robert Cowan Last week, the Smart City Innovation Lab facilitated an exciting Smart City workshop for members of the South Korean Standards Association. The objective of this session was to provide
In less than 250 days, SCIL will have the pleasure of hosting the GRONEN Research Conference. GRONEN is one of the leading networks for scholarly exchange on research on organizations and the natural environment. In 2020, the conference theme will be "Sustainability in the Digital Age". We can't wait for exciting submissions, thought-provoking panel discussions,
In the most recent paper published in the Journal of Business Models (JoBM) by Alina Margolina and René Bohnsack from the Business Model Design Lab at Católica-Lisbon, the authors describe the design and content of a blended-learning business model course. The authors show that when it comes to teaching business models for new ventures, it
Last week, the Smart City Innovation Lab conducted a business modeling workshop with partners from three out of ten pilots participating in the inteGRIDy project – Terni (Italy), San Severino (Italy) and Ploiesti (Romania). The workshop took place in Terni (Italy) and was kindly hosted by ASM Terni, our partner in inteGRIDy. The objective of
Would you like to internationalize with your innovative idea and business model, but not sure what markets are suitable? Or would you like to develop your business model to fit a particular market(s) right from the start? Join us for the webinar on September 11, at 10:00 CEST, where we will talk about how the
Christina Bidmon and René Bohnsack have won the 2019 Best Paper Award from the ONE Division of the Academy of Management. At the Academy's Annual Meeting in Boston they received the award for their paper "When Incumbents Change their Mind: Framing Strategic Reorientation in Emerging Fields". The qualitative study explores how the German car industry
In July and August, the SCIL had the pleasure to work with a multidisciplinary team of five data science interns in collaboration with iXperience. The team of interns was composed by students from the USA and Singapore with quantitative backgrounds. The interns were mainly involved in working on the Smart Business Modeler. Specifically, their project
