Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities

This work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Po...

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Main Authors: José I. Huertas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos, Sergio Uribe, Enrique A. López-Guajardo, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
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Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/23/11085
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author José I. Huertas
Jürgen Mahlknecht
Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos
Sergio Uribe
Enrique A. López-Guajardo
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
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Jürgen Mahlknecht
Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos
Sergio Uribe
Enrique A. López-Guajardo
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
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description This work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Points within a Smart City ecosystem. The main contribution of this work is to present a working model and the open innovation ecosystem used in Tecnologico de Monterrey that could be used as both, a learning mechanism as well as a base model for scaling it up into a Smart Campus and Smart City. Moreover, this work presents the Smart Energy challenge as an example of a pedagogic opportunity for the development of competencies. This included the pedagogic design of the challenge, the methodology followed by the students and the results. Finally, a discussion on the findings and learnings of the model and challenge implementation. Results showed that Campus City initiative and the Challenge Living Lab allows the identification of highly relevant and meaningful challenges while providing a pedagogic framework in which students are highly motivated, engaged, and prepared to tackle different problems that involve government, community, industry, and academia.
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spelling doaj.art-acda1ba1c497461db015cabf1fcc5c822023-11-23T02:02:14ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-11-0111231108510.3390/app112311085Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart CitiesJosé I. Huertas0Jürgen Mahlknecht1Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos2Sergio Uribe3Enrique A. López-Guajardo4Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza5Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, MexicoThis work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Points within a Smart City ecosystem. The main contribution of this work is to present a working model and the open innovation ecosystem used in Tecnologico de Monterrey that could be used as both, a learning mechanism as well as a base model for scaling it up into a Smart Campus and Smart City. Moreover, this work presents the Smart Energy challenge as an example of a pedagogic opportunity for the development of competencies. This included the pedagogic design of the challenge, the methodology followed by the students and the results. Finally, a discussion on the findings and learnings of the model and challenge implementation. Results showed that Campus City initiative and the Challenge Living Lab allows the identification of highly relevant and meaningful challenges while providing a pedagogic framework in which students are highly motivated, engaged, and prepared to tackle different problems that involve government, community, industry, and academia.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/23/11085smart water/energy/mobilityopen innovationchallenge living labsmart citychallenge-based learning
spellingShingle José I. Huertas
Jürgen Mahlknecht
Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos
Sergio Uribe
Enrique A. López-Guajardo
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
Applied Sciences
smart water/energy/mobility
open innovation
challenge living lab
smart city
challenge-based learning
title Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
title_full Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
title_fullStr Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
title_full_unstemmed Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
title_short Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
title_sort campus city project challenge living lab for smart cities
topic smart water/energy/mobility
open innovation
challenge living lab
smart city
challenge-based learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/23/11085
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