Breakout 9: Work, live, play: urban entrepreneurial spaces

September 18th, 2025 — 11:15

What makes urban innovation spaces truly thrive?  

 

Strategic governance, intentional urban planning, and well-crafted partnerships lay the groundwork—but true success often lies in culture and long-term vision. This session unveils practical frameworks for building high-performing innovation ecosystems.  

 

You’ll discover a groundbreaking metamodel building on Triple and Quadruple Helix approaches, integrating academia, industry, government, and civil society into cohesive ecosystems, and learn about strategic partnership decision-making using Open Innovation frameworks.  

 

Through multiple compelling case studies, explore pathways for transforming old factory buildings into future industrial parks via industry-city integration and policy innovation, as well as Buenos Aires Innovation Park demonstration of early strategic investment power.  

 

These examples reveal how governance, urban renewal, strategic investments, and partnerships create flourishing innovation environments.

 

Speakers

Rapetti, CarinaLa Salle Technova Barcelona, SpainGovernance of innovation ecosystems: a metamodel for Orchestrating Innovation Districts
Zhang, BingdongZ-Park Changping Park Innovation Center, ChinaHow to layout future industrial parks in urban renewal of old factory buildings
Mesquita, EzequielBuenos Aires Innovation Park, ArgentinaThe Immersive Centre: integrating people, industry, and urban development in the era of Generative AI
Sangalli, PaoloROAD, ItalyInnovation ecosystems international partnerships: evidence from a multiple- case study