Torino City Lab is the new “Innovation Laboratory” opened and spread over the entire area of the city of Turin (Torino in Italian). It is an initiative promoted by the City of Torino to support companies in co-development and testing of frontier innovations on the territory of Turin.
Relying on a supporting R&I ecosystem, the Lab is strongly inspired by an open innovation approach and less focused on co-creation, with quite a peculiar role to be played by the Municipality itself. Working on open calls as well spontaneous submission mechanism, it is focusing on autonomously driven and connected vehicles, Drones, IOT and 5G, Artificial intelligence and robotics, considering those frontier technologies at the service of quality of life, environmental and social sustainability at a city size. A specific initiative on smart mobility is reported in this case, called InTO. A final remarks section is provided.