UBT “SMART City” Model as a Testbed for Emerging Digital Technologies and Transformative Urban Planning

Abstract

Humankind is currently living in a hyper-dynamic and constant transforming environment—in the so-called convergence era and 4th industrial revolution. This level of development requires a complexity-led approach and transformations of our political, societal, economic and technological framework: the way we are living and being educated, creating new jobs and generating sustainable growth, providing security, managing hyper mobility, as well as other development aspects related with our living quality and human values. This paper elaborates a specific model named UBT “SMART City” (Small Scale Smart Sustain System) which represents a concept of Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem which could also be used as a Test-Bed for Future and Innovative Urban Planning with a particular focus in education, future planning concepts and emerging technologies.