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What is 6Aika -the Six City Strategy?

Johanna Lyytikäinen

Programme Manager

City of Espoo

Digital Cities Challenge

Brussels April 8th 2019

Workingtogethertowards open and smartservices

Based on joint ambitions and challenges of

the six biggest cities in Finland.

Six City Strategy represents Finland in EU

Cohesion Policy’s 30th anniversary year.

Smart City developmentprojects & knowledge and employmentprojectsCarried out as part of Finland’s

structural fund programme for

sustainable growth and jobs 2014-2020

Co-creation for smarter cities

Cities bring together companies, research & development organisations and citizens.

ACTIVE CUSTOMER-

CENTERED CO-CREATION

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TESTING ON OPEN

INNOVATION PLATFORMS

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OPENING AND UTILISING

DATA AND INTERFACES

Companies as a target group

Companies are both targetgroups and partners in 6Aika projects.

Companies use urbanenvironments as platformsfor testing and developingnew products and services.

Cities enable knowledgebuilding in businesses (e.g. trainings in smart city development).

64 new innovation platforms & 376 products or services tested in them

Almost 1 500 companies have co-created with the cities

Over 260 companies have started R&D&I operation with universities or R&D&I organizations

2 370 companies have participated into projects run byR&D&I organization

”Open innovation platforms arephysical, virtual, or functionalurban environments that aresystematically opened up to external developers.”

Spearhead projects built thebasis for innovation activities and created the framework for thecooperation in the city community

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Spearhead projects

OPEN DATA AND INTERFACES

• Utilising data as rawmaterial for new servicesand solutions

• Renewing processes in thecities

• Creating new business

7/14-12/176,7M €10 PARTNERS

OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORMS

• Facilitating the development of Smart City solutions with companies

• Offering a nationally significant reference platform consisting of the six participating cities

2/15-7/18

11,5M €

12 PARTNERS

OPEN PARTICIPATION AND CUSTOMERSHIP

• Creating new way of planning,

implementing and developing

customer service and city

services.

• Enabling production of new

user-oriented services

together with companies and

R&D&I organisations

4/15-4/18

7,6M €

7 PARTNERS

43 pilot projects in variousthemes

Health and wellbeingSmart mobility and logisticsLearningGamingCircular economy and cleantechMediaCity as a testbedUrban dataService designCo-creationCareer paths for the youthEmployment

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Main results & findings

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What have we achieved so far?

•Deeper and more systemic collaboration between the cities and companies

•A stronger developer network within and between the city organization

•Strengthening the culture of innovation and collaboration between public and the private sector

•Cities operating as platforms for collaboration withcompanies

New tested operating models, platforms, and praxis for innovation policies

Agile experimentation models scaled to different use cases

Lessons Learnt• Make choices, also determine tolerated risk level:

More narrow focus is easier to control, but the most innovativeoutcomes may be unpredictable

• Share leadership and embed it in the governance structure

• Spend enough time building a common vision in the beginning

• Reflect together on the findings as the work is progressing

• Update frequently and re-focus, if needed

• Involve openly the quadrable helix actors (public, private, citizens, academia) from the start

Thank you!

CONTACT US:

johanna.lyytikainen@espoo.fi

Tel. +358 40 723 1833

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