Why Collaboration Gets the Key to the City

The urgent lessons collaboration can teach us about Smart City innovation

People support a world they help create. When cities take the time to involve their citizens and create partnerships between public and private stakeholders, they have more capital to leverage: community capital.

Some of the largest grants, the most innovative projects, and the most successful tech experiments can be mapped to cities that focus on collaboration to leverage their community capital. These are cities that partner with their citizens, bring the public and private sector together, and turn research and tech-trends into projects and testbeds.