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In this chapter, I will analyze initiatives of the Yokohama Smart Community , which is currently conducting demonstration experiments of a smart city project aimed at achieving a low-carbon society . Promoting the development of an energy system “learned from a view of life found in nature,” the Yokohama Smart Community formed a consortium comprised of participating companies, universities and local government to put into practice a range of innovative initiatives. A characteristic feature of this consortium is the absence of a specific leader. This is because the Yokohama Smart Community is not a consortium formed by a particular leader to promote a specific initiative to be implemented under that individual’s or organization’s leadership. Moreover, while the local government of the city of Yokohama is involved, it is purely in an advisory capacity, so the Yokohama Smart Community does not have the character of a government-led project. Therefore, the participating members voluntarily take part in the consortium as they wish without being subject to any explicit or implicit restrictions or constraints of another organization, and they are free to withdraw at any time.
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Information concerning the Yokohama Smart Community is based on information provided by dSPACE Japan and various companies in attendance at the Smart City Week seminar held in Yokohama in October 2013.
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This concept shares characteristics common to natural capitalism proposed by scholars like Hawken, P. and Lovins, A.
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There are two reasons why validating tacit knowledge is difficult. The first is knowledge of this nature constitutes corporate secrets that are highly confidential, and therefore companies do not release this information externally. The second reason is companies themselves lack an awareness of the existence of tacit knowledge within their organizations.
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Tokoro, N. (2016). Co-Creation of Value Generated by a Self-motivated “Ba”—A Case Study of the Yokohama Smart Community. In: The Smart City and the Co-creation of Value. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55846-0_3
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