Facilitating data-intensive approaches to innovation for sustainability: opportunities and challenges in building smart cities

Sustainability Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 881-885

  Yarime, Masaru ^a,b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data intensive approach; Innovation; Open data; Smart city; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030677989     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0498-1     Document Type: Note

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