TY - JOUR T1 - Understanding Civic Crowdfunding as a Mechanism for Leveraging Civic Engagement and Urban Innovation JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bastiaan Baccarne A1 - Tom Evens A1 - Lieven De Marez KW - Civic crowdfunding KW - Civic engagement KW - Civic entrepreneurship KW - Civic identity KW - Digital citizenship KW - Participation inequalities KW - Peer-to-peer economy KW - Social cohesion KW - Urban innovation AB - This article studies the emergence of government-initiated civic crowdfunding platforms. Such platforms can be considered as governmental responses for bottom-up peer-to-peer support mechanisms related to urban innovation, which also allows top-down governance and governmental support systems for civic entrepreneurship. To better understand the implications of these innovative ICT-enabled interaction interfaces for collective urban innovation, this study investigates participation inequalities from the perspective of campaign instigators, using in-depth interviews (N=28), and from the perspective of the citizen-funder, using a survey (N=265). The analysis shows that urban crowdfunding practices mainly contribute to higher-level development of collective identities with increased neighborhood capacities. Although participation in such ICT-enabled interaction interfaces could reinforce digital inequalities and existing power balances, this research shows a more nuanced perspective, in which online and offline practices intertwine. Furthermore, while civic crowdfunding campaigns are driven by a traditional 'participation elite', the deliberation process on development projects involves new publics that are not typically engaged in civic activities. Hence, civic crowdfunding formulates a new mode of civic engagement in which institutional involvement acts as a trust broker between civic funders and civic entrepreneurs, as well as adding legitimacy to innovation processes in the public sphere. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1356 IS - 5 U1 - Ghent University Dr. Bastiaan Baccarne is a senior researcher at imec-mict-Ghent University, Belgium. His academic interests converge on the crossroads between urban challenges, (urban) living labs, civic technology and smart cities. His work focusses on the potential and development of new interfaces in the urban environment to solve wicked urban issues. In September 2019, Bastiaan finished his PhD on innovative ICT-enabled interaction interfaces in the urban environment, titled: "collaborative and participatory challenges in urban innovation". This includes research on online civic engagement, digital citizenship, urban commons, innovation ecosystems and urban social informatics. U2 - Ghent University Professor Tom Evens is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. He holds Masters Degrees in Communication Sciences (2005) and Business Administration (2006) from Ghent University. Tom teaches in Media Economics (Ba1), Innovation and Tech Policy (Ma) and Business Models in Media and Technology (Ma). He is fellow holder of the chair ‘Media in a Society in Transition’. U3 - Ghent University Professor Lieven De Marez holds degrees in in communication sciences (1999) and marketing (2000), and a PhD on the ‘Diffusion of ICT-innovations: more accurate user insight for better introduction strategies’. He heads the interdisciplinary research group imec-mict-Ghent University, Belgium, a group of approx. 50 researchers teaming up around a mission to empower users in a digitizing society. His personal research focus is on methodological innovation to feel the digital pulse of users in a digitizing society. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Governing Quintuple Helix Innovation: Urban Living Labs and Socio-Ecological Entrepreneurship JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bastiaan Baccarne A1 - Sara Logghe A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Lieven De Marez KW - distributed innovation KW - quintuple helix innovation KW - social ecology KW - socio-ecological entrepreneurship KW - urban living labs AB - Growing urbanization puts pressure on both social and ecological systems. This pressure raises complex and multi-facetted challenges that can only be tackled by collaborative and distributed innovation development processes. However, theoretical frameworks that assess such collaborations are often very conceptual, with little focus on the actual governance mechanisms that facilitate them. This article studies the urban living lab concept as an inter-organizational design and multi-stakeholder innovation development process to govern the quintuple helix model for innovation by means of an action research based multidimensional case study design, which focuses on the concepts of innovation democracy, mode 3 knowledge production, the innovation ecosystem as a system of societal subsystems, and socio-ecological transition. In this way, we provide a more profound understanding of such innovation processes to tackle socio-ecological challenges by means of public–private interactions driven by eco-entrepreneurship. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/972 IS - 3 U1 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Bastiaan Baccarne is a Research and Teaching Assistant at iMinds-MICT, a research group within the communications department of Ghent University, where he works on the topic of user-centric innovation development in the context of (new) media and ICT. Bastiaan is also a PhD student working on citizen empowerment through the co-development of socio-technical innovations in an urban environment. Being part of iMinds Living Labs, Bastiaan works as a user researcher for several SME and startup projects, with an overall academic focus on the possibilities and limitations of user-centric innovation development ecosystems. U2 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Sara Logghe obtained a master’s degree in both History and Communication Sciences with specialization in New Media and Society at Ghent University. Her second master's thesis was Cultural Communication on the Internet: A Study on the Potential of Social Media for Cultural Institutions. A three-month internship at iMinds Living Labs encouraged her interest in research on living labs, and in May 2013, Sara joint iMinds-MICT as a Junior Researcher. Working on cultural projects within living lab research, Sara developed a specific interest in the changing library scene. U3 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Dimitri Schuurman holds a PhD (2015) and Master's in Communication Sciences (2003) from Ghent University in Belgium. He joined the research group iMinds – MICT – Ghent University in 2005 and started working at iMinds Living Labs in 2009. Together with his iMinds colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at startups and SMEs, in which he has managed over 50 innovation projects. As a senior researcher, Dimitri is currently responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of living lab projects. He also coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers from iMinds – MICT – Ghent University. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. In early 2015, he finished his PhD entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. U4 - iMinds – MICT – Ghent University Lieven De Marez is Research Director of the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and teaches on the topics of innovation research, media, market and ICT, and new communication technologies in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium. MICT is one of 16 research groups within iMinds, and Lieven is also part of the management team of iMinds Living Labs’ facilitating infrastructure for living lab research. ER -