The goal of the urban innovation systems analysis is to provide strategy and governance recommendations to support upscaling of the solutions in each lighthouse city.

First, enablers and barriers for upscaling are identified using the Critical Context and Conditions framework. Then, the Technological Innovation Systems framework is used to analyse the effects of these barriers and enablers on the main innovation functions of the urban innovation systems. The functioning of each function is assessed and the recommendations for improving them are given. As the final step, potential implications of the recommendations for the existing structural elements of innovation systems are presented.

The report is structured as follows. First, the method for data collection and data analysis is described. Then, for each city, the barriers and enablers for the innovation system are outlined, followed by an analysis of how these barriers and enablers affect the functioning of the system. The recommendations for national, regional and local governance and strategy are introduced as the next step. The report concludes with a brief reflections and discussion of the results.