%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T The Cuckoo’s Nest Approach for Co-Creating Business Ecosystems in Smart Cities %A Karlos Artto %A Riikka Kyrö %A Tuomas Ahola %A Antti Peltokorpi %A Kristiina Sandqvist %K business ecosystem %K business network %K campus development %K co-creation %K co-design %K collective action %K Cuckoo’s Nest Approach %K participatory planning %K smart cities %K sustainability %X The development of business ecosystems in smart cities is currently hampered by the absence of established approaches for facilitating long-term value and sustainability. In our view, the underlying reason is the lack of collective action involving various organizations in the design process. Collective action for the good of the whole ecosystem does not take place in existing participatory practices because of the dominating role of a single customer or designer organization (in urban development projects typically the owner-developer or lead architect), who uses their bargaining and decision-making power over others. This leads to sub-optimal behaviour where the system is optimized for the goals of one strong organization instead of collectively developed system-level goals of the business ecosystem as a whole. The Cuckoo’s Nest approach addresses this problem by inviting various expert organizations to design the system and assigning each organization design rights for the ecosystem and its system-level goal. The Cuckoo’s Nest approach enhances collective action among the organizations by making individuals from various organizations consider the interests, goals, objectives, and value-adding elements of other organizations – not just those of their own organizations. With the Cuckoo’s Nest approach, the business ecosystem comes first, and single organizations’ goals or specific design features come second. This article discusses the outcomes of two workshops where the Cuckoo’s Nest approach was used for the purpose of developing business ecosystems in connection with smart city development projects within the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. We outline the steps involved in the Cuckoo’s Nest approach and how they were applied in these two smart city projects, and we describe how it is being refined for further use in other locations and contexts. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 26-37 %8 12/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1039 %N 12 %1 Aalto University Karlos Artto is a Professor and Lead of Project Business at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Artto’s long experience working in industry and the multiple research projects he conducted with global firms and domestic organizations provide a strong empirical basis for his academic achievements. His publications include more than 50 articles in refereed journals and more than 200 academic papers, book chapters, and books on project business and the management of project-based firms. He belongs to editorial boards of several project management journals. Dr. Artto has supervised 12 doctoral dissertations and more than 180 master’s theses. %2 Aalto University Riikka Kyrö is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University School of Science, Finland. Dr. Kyrö earned an M Sc in Real Estate Economics in 2005 from the Helsinki University of Technology and a DrSc (Tech) in Real Estate Business in 2013 from the Aalto University School of Engineering. Outside academia, she has six years of industry experience working with environmental consulting and sustainability in corporate real estate management. Dr. Kyrö has published nearly 30 academic articles in the field of the built environment. %3 Tampere University of Technology Tuomas Ahola is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Management at the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dr. Ahola specializes in inter-organizational networks in the context of project business. He has published more than 15 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Ahola lectures on various content areas of project business for both academic and industry audiences. %4 Aalto University Antti Peltokorpi is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in Construction at Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland. Dr. Peltokorpi holds a DrSc (Tech) in Operations Management from the Aalto University School of Science. His research includes studies on service innovations, service production strategies, and production planning and control. Dr. Peltokorpi's research interests include value creation in business networks and supply chains, especially in the built environment, the construction industry, and healthcare. %# Aalto University Kristiina Sandqvist is a MA student in Collaborative and Industrial Design at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. Ms. Sandqvist has industry experience as a service designer and is interested in the development and application of co-creation methods as well as the emerging roles of designers as facilitators. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1039