From 17-19 June 2020, the Smart City Innovation Lab will host the GRONEN Conference at Católica Lisbon. The announcement of the Call for Papers already hit >20,000 views! We are looking forward to many exciting submissions to the conference, which will have the theme “Sustainability in the Digital Age” in 2020!
Last week, the Smart City Innovation Lab was invited to host a workshop on Business Models in a Smart City Context with Urban Planning specialists from the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The main goal of this workshop was to understand the opportunities and challenges of business model development for smart city solutions. Dr. René Bohnsack started with
On June 5, the Smart City Innovation Lab was honored to host a foresight workshop with alumni of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Executive Academy, current senior leaders at universities and business schools worldwide. The main question participants were challenged with during the workshop was: how does the business school in the smart
Last Thursday, at the Innovday 2019 of EDP Distribuição, Dr. René Bohnsack presented his vision of a smart city in 2025 and how EDP can prepare for it. Being an international expert in business model innovation, René Bohnsack was invited to speak about the specifics and the future of business modeling in the smart city
The Smart City Innovation Lab was invited to guide and inspire 25 teams at the 7th edition of BET24 Startup Challenge 1.0. What are investors looking for? Exactly – significant return potential at minimum risk. However, “risk” is a broad term compared to the five specific startup failures investors are looking to avoid: product risk,
The Smart City Innovation Lab guided 60 international students on an Urban Innovation Workshop with the aim of agilely learning more about innovation and venture creation. Alina Margolina opened the session with a keynote on what is business model innovation and how a pattern-based approach can simplify the process of business model innovation, introducing the
With the goal of agilely exploring Smart City Business Models, Wavestone invited 50 consultants for a Smart City Workshop. René Bohnsack opened the session with a keynote on the work that the Smart City Innovation Lab has been doing on Smart City Business Models, the challenges identified, and the avenues forward, introducing PITCH!© - the
Last Friday, René Bohnsack was invited to deliver a keynote on Smart City Business Models at the Marketing & Sales Community day of Efacec. Efacec is a prestigious Portuguese company, present in over 65 countries, focused on developing products and systems with high added value for the energy, environment, mobility and transportation industries. In this
We are honored to announce that our innovation and venture creation platform Smart Business Modeler won the Gold Award for the most innovative, impactful, and scalable ICT tool empowering outstanding teaching and learning! It still seems like a dream. We must thank Reimagine Education Awards & Conference for enabling this transformative experience and Amazon Web
One of our master teams from the business model innovation course is a winner in the Big Smart Cities University Challenge. From the 10 finalists, 3 groups won the final prize and the three students with their project "RewardYourWaste" were among them. “RewardYourWaste” wants to reward people for sorting their waste and tackle the low recycling
