All rights reservedKunzmann, Klaus R.2024-03-202024-03-202015978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1468Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015Recent enthusiasm about smart technologies, heavily promoted by cities such as Vienna, may nurture hope in the Ruhr that the smart city paradigm could revitalize the new smart technologies could certainly address some of the complex spatial challenges of the polycentric urban agglomeration, such as declining public see people, energy conservation or more convenient regional mobility. Though all accomplishments will undoubtedly contribute to maintain or even raise the qual residents and households, there are not nay signs that smart technologies can and attract new innovative industries and create new employment in the old ind The paper will explore whether and where smart technologies can revitalize the discuss what kind of smart technologies may have a chance to impact the region polycentric old industrial region, and it will identify the constraints, obstacle region-wide introduction of smart technologies. The ongoing project. Innovation serves as one exemplary case study.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject3110-3128