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Living PlanIT and the development of the ‘PlanIT Urban Operating SystemTM’: the geographies of an innovation

In: Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development

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  • Luís Carvalho
  • Inês Plácido Santos
  • Mário Vale

Abstract

This case study explores the development of the PlanIT Urban Operating SystemTM, a complex middleware platform designed to link a city’s sub-systems (for example the built environment, safety and security, energy, water), harmonizing resource flows towards manifold efficiency gains. This chapter explores the spatial and organizational context of the proponent company, Living PlanIT SA, currently headquartered in Switzerland but with relevant operations in other milieus, namely in the north of Portugal. Despite the codification of the core technology, the chapter illustrates how the interaction with different milieus provided (and keeps providing) unique resources for the technology’s development, commercialization and societal legitimation.

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  • Luís Carvalho & Inês Plácido Santos & Mário Vale, 2017. "Living PlanIT and the development of the ‘PlanIT Urban Operating SystemTM’: the geographies of an innovation," Chapters, in: Leïla Kebir & Olivier Crevoisier & Pedro Costa & Véronique Peyrache-Gadeau (ed.), Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development, chapter 4, pages 86-102, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:16153_4
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