About the Journal

Journal of Urban Innovation is a scientific journal that focuses on the study of urban and regional innovation. The journal is committed to creating a multidisciplinary forum with a current approach to connect theoretical development and empirical research, as well as consistent quality demands. Therefore, this scientific journal is open to a variety of topics, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches, as long as the manuscript is based on theory and answers current, meaningful, and interesting questions and problems related to urban innovation. Journal of Urban Innovation is an essential reading for social scientists who care about the role and future of complex and evolving cities and regions.

Focus

The Journal of Urban Innovation is a scientific journal that focuses on the study of urban and regional innovation. The journal is committed to creating a multidisciplinary forum with current approaches to connect theoretical development and empirical research, as well as consistent quality demands. Therefore, this scientific journal is open to various topics, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches, as long as the manuscript is based on theory and answers current, meaningful, and interesting questions and problems related to urban innovation. The Journal of Urban Innovation is essential reading for social scientists who care about the role and future of complex and evolving cities and regions.

Scope

Current urban and innovation issues are paying particular attention to themes that have great potential for future research. The focus of the scope of the theme is intended to provide inspiration and guidance for authors to explore research on urban issues and innovation and submit their scientific manuscripts to the Journal of Urban Innovation. The intended scope of the theme includes, among others:

• Innovation in urban environmental management
  Climate change is a major challenge today. All world policies are being directed towards implementing a sustainable environmentally friendly energy transition. This will certainly have a major impact on the innovations that are being and will be carried out in the environmental field. Given the rapid growth of the population living in urban areas, research and innovation in urban environmental management, among others, are not limited to the implementation of technology in disaster mitigation, waste and waste management, innovation of environmentally friendly renewable energy, urban adaptation to climate change, air quality improvement, mobility and transportation innovation, green building and infrastructure, strategies for clean water management, and growing the role of the community in maintaining the environment.
• Innovation in economic growth and regional equality
  This theme covers innovation in supporting sustainable economic growth and productivity, the use of resources in supporting economic productivity, innovation and strategies in development financing, innovation in inter-regional inequality issues, inclusive investment policies, urban entrepreneurs and start-ups, implementation of the circular economy, as well as policies to grow community welfare.
• Innovation in public, social and demographic policy
  This theme promotes urban innovation in supporting livable urban planning policies, infrastructure and public services that support community activities, transportation to facilitate the activities and mobility of urban people, community empowerment, social enterprise and entrepreneurship, cultural preservation and promotion, population control, improving the quality of education and health services, poverty alleviation, increasing public awareness of the law, and innovation in sustainable urban planning and governance policies.