00762nas a2200265   4500008004100000022001400041245005600055210005300111260004200164300000800206490000600214653002900220653001500249653001600264653002100280653002000301653002400321653001700345653001800362100001800380700002100398700001900419700002100438856003700459       2016                        eng d  a1927-032100aEditorial: Smart Cities and Regions (December 2016)0 aEditorial Smart Cities and Regions December 2016  aOttawabTalent First Networkc12/2016  a3-50 v610acollaborative innovation10aecosystems10aliving labs10aonline platforms10aOpen innovation10aregional innovation10asmart cities10asmart regions1 aMcPhee, Chris1 aTukiainen, Taina1 aLeminen, Seppo1 aWesterlund, Mika  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/103701697nas a2200241   4500008004100000022001400041245004900055210004900104260004200153300001000195490000600205520103400211653002901245653002101274653001301295653001501308653002001323653001501343100002101358700001901379700002101398856003601419       2015                        eng d  a1927-032100aCities as Collaborative Innovation Platforms0 aCities as Collaborative Innovation Platforms  aOttawabTalent First Networkc10/2015  a16-230 v53 aIn this article, we focus on the role of a city as an orchestrator for innovation. We argue that cities should establish active dialogue with their citizens,  and private and public sectors actors to co-create, develop, test, and offer service innovations that utilize diverse sets of platforms such as living labs. Our research contributes to the discussions of open and user innovations from the perspective of cities as communities that involve and integrate citizens and companies to collaborative innovation activities. While acknowledging that cities are platforms for simultaneous and divergent innovation initiatives, we identify four principal types of collaborative innovation. Cities serve as platforms for: i) improving everyday life; ii) conducting consumer and citizen experiments; iii) experimenting and implementing new technologies and services; and iv) creating new innovations and economies. Finally, we offer guidelines for fostering collaborative innovation activities between the public and private sectors.10acollaborative innovation10acreative citizen10aindustry10aLiving lab10aOpen innovation10asmart city1 aTukiainen, Taina1 aLeminen, Seppo1 aWesterlund, Mika  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/933