Four platforms for intelligent cities: linking virtual spaces and collaborative innovation

The paper mainly looks at the digital dimension of intelligent cities. It starts from the concept of intelligent cities as territories that link human, collective and artificial intelligence, and describes four IT platforms that sustain the knowledge functions of these cities. The platforms facilitate operations in the fields of strategic intelligence, technology dissemination, new product development, and product promotion. These are fundamental innovation processes based on the skills of the population of the cities, the institutions involved in knowledge and innovation creation, and IT tools for communication and learning. The last section of the paper examines the way platforms and the associated concepts of integration may be used to design intelligent communities and cities.