There are two driving forces to promote the gradual formation of smart cities. One is a new generation of information technology represented by the Internet of Things, cloud computing and mobile Internet, and the other is an open urban innovation ecology gradually bred in the knowledge society environment. The former is a technical factor at the level of technological innovation, while the latter is a socio-economic factor at the level of social innovation. From this we can see the driving role of innovation in the development of smart cities. Professor Meng Qingguo, secretary and vice president of Tsinghua University School of Management, pointed out that a new generation of information technology and innovation 2.0 are two genes of a smart city, and they are both indispensable.

Smart cities not only need the support of the next generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, but also need to cultivate the next generation of innovation (Innovation 2.0) oriented to the knowledge society. The integrated development of information and communication technology has melted the barriers of information and knowledge sharing and the boundaries of innovation, promoted the formation of Innovation 2.0, and further promoted the "melting" of the boundaries of various social organizations and activities. The transformation of innovation form from production paradigm to service paradigm has also led to the transformation of industrial form, government management form and urban form from production paradigm to service paradigm. If innovation 1.0 is a relatively closed innovation form with production as the guide, producer as the center and technology as the starting point, innovation 2.0 is an open innovation form with service as the guide, user as the center and people as the center to adapt to the information age and knowledge society. In the keynote speech "Smart City and Management Innovation from the Perspective of Innovation 2.0", Dr. Song Gang, director of the Information Equipment Center of Beijing Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureau, gave a wonderful speech on the innovation of industrial form, government form, urban form and social management mode brought about by the change of innovation form from the social context of the development of three generations of information and communication technologies. He pointed out that the construction of smart cities requires not only the application of technical tools such as Internet of Things and cloud computing, but also the application of social tools such as Weibo and Wiki, as well as the methodology and practice involving users such as Living Lab to promote people-oriented sustainable innovation. At the same time, he vividly explained the social management innovation in the era of innovation 2.0 by combining the smart urban management construction based on the Internet of Things platform in Beijing.