Living PlanIT and the development of the ‘PlanIT Urban Operating SystemTM’: the geographies of an innovation

Luís Carvalho, Inês Plácido Santos and Mário Vale

Chapter 4 in Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development, 2017, pp 86-102 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This case study explores the development of the PlanIT Urban Operating SystemTM, a complex middleware platform designed to link a city’s sub-systems (for example the built environment, safety and security, energy, water), harmonizing resource flows towards manifold efficiency gains. This chapter explores the spatial and organizational context of the proponent company, Living PlanIT SA, currently headquartered in Switzerland but with relevant operations in other milieus, namely in the north of Portugal. Despite the codification of the core technology, the chapter illustrates how the interaction with different milieus provided (and keeps providing) unique resources for the technology’s development, commercialization and societal legitimation.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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