Diffusion of Public-Private Innovations: Conditions for Scaling Up Smart City Projects
On May 28th, the Initiative on Cities welcomed Lasse Bundgaard, a Visiting Researcher from the Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Solutions Lab, to discuss his research on Smart City Solutions and public-private partnerships.
He presented the results from his paper with Susana Borras, “Diffusion of Public-Private Innovations: Conditions for Scaling Up Smart City Projects,” which discusses the conditions that affect the scale up of Smart City Solutions resulting from public-private partnerships. Bundgaard is specifically interested in the role the dynamic of the partnership have to play in the success the project will have, both in terms of whether it will be scaled up and, in later research, ensuring the greatest value for citizens and private partners. This paper is the first of three in his doctoral research, and comes from his work at the Copenhagen Solutions Lab. Having seen that some initiatives were “not scaling well,” Bundgaard decided to look for which factors, whether they be social, political, or economic, determined what would and would not be important for scaling a project.