Business Models and Financial Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 295
Special Issue Editors
Interests: financial innovation and risk analytics for industrial renewal; green growth; network theory in finance; efficient financing mechanisms for smart infrastructure systems; business and financing models in the data economy; water risk pricing in the capital markets; indexes and risk transfer mechanisms
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Interests: new financing models for water services and infrastructure; the use of big data to tailor better water policies; demand side management; trading models and innovations; addressing institutional constraints for technology diffusion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable infrastructure sits at the intersection of four megatrends. One, cities and municipalities are transitioning to more sustainable and resilient services or asset management strategies for water, energy, transportation, and waste management. Two, there is a significant financing gap to repair and upgrade infrastructures, necessitating new public-private partnership models. Three, digitalization of infrastructure is starting to unlock informational inefficiencies that inform capital investment, operations and maintenance, intangible values, and derivative business and service opportunities. Four, investors are structuring new financing models based on how infrastructure systems are operated, maintained, valued and how data are monetized. These megatrends are transforming how we design, finance and build business models for public infrastructure asset management. This special issue seeks to invite papers in the following topical areas:
- Emerging public-private partnership models for resilient infrastructure systems
- Digital business models for intelligent infrastructures
- Efficient (data-driven) financing models for digital infrastructure assets, including variable interest rate bonds or securities, risk transfer products.
- Application of fractionalization and tokenization models for sensor-informed data streams in infrastructure.
- Infrastructure finance policies to address climate change
Prof. Dr. Peter Adriaens
Dr. Newsha Ajami
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Infrastructure systems
- Financial models
- Sensors and big data
- Internet of things
- Finance policies for infrastructure
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