YuehPerng, Sung- and Kitchin, Rob and Mac Donncha, Darach
(2017)
Hackathons, entrepreneurship and the passionate making of smart cities: The Programmable City Working Paper 28.
Working Paper.
The Programmable City Working Paper.
Abstract
Hackathons – quick prototyping events for commercial purposes – have become an
important means to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and the start-up economy in smart
cities. Smart and entrepreneurial cities have been critiqued with respect to the
neoliberalization of governance and statecraft. We consider the passions, inventions and
imitations in the assemblage of practices – alongside neoliberalizing and capitalist
operations – that shape the economy and governance of smart cities. The paper examines
hackathons as tech events that extend the passions for digital innovation and
entrepreneurship and act as sites of social learning for the development of smart urbanism.
We argue that passionate and imitative practices energize the desire and belief in
entrepreneurial life and technocratic governance, and also engender precarious, ambiguous
and uncertain future for participants and prototypes.
| Item Type: |
Monograph
(Working Paper)
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| Additional Information: |
Over the long course of developing the research and the paper, we have benefited from
many critical but encouraging comments by present and previous members of the
Programmable City project, as well as colleagues in Maynooth University, especially Aphra
Kerr, Kylie Jarrett, Mary Gilmartin and Mark Boyle. The research is funded by a European
Research Council Advanced Investigator award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY).
Published under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| Keywords: |
innovation; entrepreneurial life; imitations; passions; smart city; start-up economy; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
| Item ID: |
9233 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NU3EC |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Rob Kitchin
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| Date Deposited: |
07 Feb 2018 17:03 |
| Publisher: |
The Programmable City Working Paper |
| Funders: |
European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
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