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Open Innovation in Smart Cities is about extensive collaboration among the city government, research/academia, citizens and the businesses (quadruple helix). It is also about sharing ideas, results, intellectual creativity and co-creation among all involved in the ecosystem.

"Cities everywhere experience the conflict of providing more and better services while facing a scenario of decreasing budgets. At the same time information technology promises to reinvent cities, making them more efficient and, yes, smarter."