The Smart University-City-Planet Value Chain

From Spohrer, JC (2010) "Co-Evolving Smarter Universities & Smarter Cities". Presentation on the transformation of universities and cities. April 2010.

"cities and universities are the right building blocks to accelerate progress on many grand challenge problems that are important to maintaining and improving quality of life for people…. "

"cities are the living labs for much research that needs to get done at universities…"

“Smarter” is sustainable innovation that both reduces waste and expands capabilities – “Smarter” is a focus on grand challenges aimed at improving quality of life…"

"Most of the really important grand challenges in business and society relate to improving quality of life."

“Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent – Let’s build a Smarter Planet.” – IBM

“If we are going to build a smarter planet, let’s start by building smarter cities” – CityForward.org

“The best way to predict the future is to build it.” – Kay

“The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed.” – Gibbons

“Real-world problems do not respect discipline boundaries.” – Popper

“Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions.” – Senge

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” – H.G. Wells