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The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix

Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2018)
The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, (94-103
This article suggests the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EPD) that underlies Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) is not so much caught in th...

The thermal retrofitting of walls windows and ceilings in traditional Scottish buildings.

Conference Proceeding
Stinson, J., Bros Williamson, J., Reid, A., & Currie, J. (2015)
The thermal retrofitting of walls windows and ceilings in traditional Scottish buildings. In W. F. Florez-Escobar, C. A. Brebbia, F. Chejne, & F. Mondragon (Eds.), Energy and Sustainability VI, (317-326). https://doi.org/10.2495/ESUS150271
This paper documents research undertaken to evaluate the thermal transmittance of building elements – walls, windows and ceilings – both before and after the addition of insul...

Innovative refurbishment strategies for poorly performing housing stock in Scotland, UK

Conference Proceeding
Bros-Williamson, J., Stinson, J., Reid, A., & Gravrand, D. (2016)
Innovative refurbishment strategies for poorly performing housing stock in Scotland, UK. In 41st IAHS WORLD CONGRESS Conference Proceedings
Scotland is currently increasing its housing stock at a rate of less than 1% per year. With 174,000 households registered on local authority waiting lists for new or improved ...

Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems

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Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2023)
Smart Cities as Future Internet-Based Developments that Adapt to Climate Change and Which Green the Intellectual Capital of Urban and Regional Innovation Systems. In HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023 (467-480). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48047-8_31
Many in the academic community find claims made about the virtuous nature of smart cities dumbfounding. In that sense left not only bewildered by the claims which academics ma...

Energy Behaviour Change by Coloured In-Home Display

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Stinson, J., Reid, A., Bros-Williamson, J., & Currie, J. (2016)
Energy Behaviour Change by Coloured In-Home Display. In 41st IAHS WORLD CONGRESS: Conference Proceedings
It is estimated that by 2020 some 53 million, next-generation gas and electricity meters, commonly known as ‘smart meters’, will be installed in approximately 30 million homes...

Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research

Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018)
Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, (176-185
Smart Specialisation has generated a paradigmatic change in regional innovation policies and the European Union has shown a strong interest in supporting research that investi...

Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation

Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2017)
Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation. In P. Ketikidis, & A. Solomon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development. , (529-539
Smart specialisation can be considered an entrepreneurial discovery process which makes it possible to identify where regions can benefit from specialising in specific areas o...

Online platforms for smart specialisation strategies and smart growth

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Panori, A., Angelidou, M., Mora, L., Reid, A., & Sefertzi, E. (2018)
Online platforms for smart specialisation strategies and smart growth. In Regions at a Turning Point: Post-Digital Communities, New Regionalism and Re-Nationalisation - Sustainable Development Implications, (96-102
This paper reports on the findings of the Online-S3 project, funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme (ISSI-4-2015), which tries to address the challenge of strengthening regio...

Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research

Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018)
Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, P. Laconte, & S. Costa (Eds.), Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2017, (403-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75774-2
More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publica-tion, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since th...

Conservation of a historic building through sympathetic thermal enhancement.

Conference Proceeding
Stinson, J., Bros Williamson, J., Reid, A., & Currie, J. (2015)
Conservation of a historic building through sympathetic thermal enhancement. In Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XIV, (633-642). https://doi.org/10.2495/STR150531
This paper documents research undertaken by the Scottish Energy Centre at Edinburgh Napier University to refurbish a historic library building by means of thermal improvements...