Accounting for the Digitalization Factor in Assessing Territorial Competitiveness

Dmitrieva, Elena; Guseva, M. S.

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20196213003

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“…As a consequence, today the absence of an appropriate selection of indices and indicators capable of defining the Sustainable Dimension is relevant. An attempt to introduce digitalization indicators in urban contests was made by Dmitrieva and Guseva [74]. The authors proposed to take into account the digitalization factor as one of the keys to assessing territorial competitiveness.…”

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Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Canesi

Marella

2022

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Urban transitions and urban-scape have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely be affected by the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict. These two major events have affected European urban regions and especially marginal regions. Indeed, these regions are mostly struggling with inequality, lack of optionality, interoperability, and resilience due to their energy dependency and digital asymmetries. The continuous demand for a green and digital transition to strengthen social and economic resilience sought and targeted by the European Community has driven the policy of recent years to new European Guidelines. Nevertheless, the digital transition will require sustainability targets in the urban context, changing economic, social, and ecological relationships and balances. In this context, faced with these new transitions, marginal urban regions must plan, design, build, and manage future urban planning choices in a new digital-hybrid space. Therefore, it is crucial to support these transitions with a multi-dimensional sustainability concept through economic, environmental, social, and digital measurements. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) play an essential role in supporting urban choices and planning. The current study analyzes recent literature and European standards to verify if and how they have changed in embracing the European Policy Pillar under a new and different sustainability profile, which needs to include digital sustainability. As a matter of fact, even if the concept of digitization has been recognized as a pillar of ongoing transitions, the literature and even European indicators struggle to recognize it as a tangible and measurable indicator of sustainability. Seeking to bridge the gap between European requirements and urban practice, the aim of this study is to identify and suggest new key indicators of digitalization to enable the digital sustainability of urban planning to be measured. These indicators can be used to implement a new valuation tool capable of supporting marginal regions by promoting sustainable urban investments in this new hybrid space.

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Section: Results and Discussion-phase II And Iiimentioning

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Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

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Marella

2022

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“…Specifically, assuming as a main hypothesis that urban competitiveness is a multidimensional and complex phenomenon, we refer to the following three dimensions: “Green Transition”, referring to dimensions within the roadmap towards sustainable development, diversification of energy resources, improvement of environmental quality, safety and environmental management (Jiang and Shen, 2010; Hammer et al , 2011; Papa et al , 2016; Van Den Berg et al , 2016; Komasi et al , 2022; Cassinger and Thufvesson, 2023); “Digital Transition” referring to digitalization across the economy and society at large (education, business, public sector) along with the spread of skills and the diffusion of technologies (Filo, 2007; Van Winden and Carvalho, 2008; Dmitrieva and Guseva, 2019; Penco et al , 2020); and “Economic and Social Resilience”, including dimensions related to the level of equity and inclusion, social provisions and salaries, employment, and touristic resources (Williams et al , 2013; Martin and Sunley, 2017; Säumel et al , 2019; UNESCO, and World Bank, 2021).…”

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Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon

Sgambati,

Carvalho

2023

JPMD

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the competitive potential of different classes of municipalities within larger metropolitan areas, considering three dimensions of place competitiveness, associated to contemporary economic recovery agendas: the “dual transition” (green and digital) and socio-economic resilience. Design/methodology/approach The proposed methodology is divided in two stages, the first aiming at developing a new Index of Urban Competitiveness, based on three key dimensions of place development, by using principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis; the second intends to identify municipalities’ main competitive assets, throughout the examination of the existing links between the overall competitiveness index and intra-metropolitan place conditions in each dimension. This methodology is applied to the metropolitan areas of Porto and Lisbon. Findings The analysis shows a weak link between population size and urban competitiveness, suggesting that economic recovery investments primarily targeting larger municipalities will not necessarily lead to greater metropolitan competitive advantages. On the contrary, taking into consideration place-based interventions for different “clubs” of municipalities would more likely contribute to enhance competitive performance and valorise territorial assets. Furthermore, while the relationship between competitiveness and environmental performance appears to be non-linear, digitalization and economic and social resilience prove to be key for urban competitive potential. Originality/value By drawing on contemporary notions of urban competitiveness, the work proposes a revised method to evaluate competitiveness, latent qualities and intrinsic features of places, constituting an initial step to conceive suitable metropolitan development and investment strategies for economic recovery.

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“…El World Competitiveness Center, define el concepto de competitividad como la capacidad de un país para mantener un entorno próspero, tanto para la sociedad como para las empresas, es decir, se refiere a la manera en la que una nación administra sus recursos y competencias para mantener un equilibrio socioeconómico (Capobianco-Uriarte et al, 2019). La competitividad se refiere a la capacidad de mantener niveles relativamente altos de ingresos y empleos, sin dejar de estar abierto a la competencia internacional (Dmitrieva & Guseva, 2019).…”

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Capacidades de Innovación de los estudiantes de ingeniería: Caso de una universidad pública del noreste de México

Domínguez

Escalona

Alcántara

2022

EDU

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El objetivo de este estudio es identificar la relación entre las habilidades y conocimientos desarrollados en los futuros egresados y la capacidad de innovación. Se diseñó un instrumento en escala de Likert que cumplió con los criterios de confiabilidad, mediante un análisis de consistencia interna, obteniendo valores superiores a 0.7 en cada una de las variables. En cuanto la validez del instrumento, este se elaboró mediante una revisión exhaustiva y sistemática de la literatura, adaptando los ítems de cada variable y solicitando a expertos en el área la revisión de este. El instrumento se aplicó a una muestra aleatoria de 316 estudiantes del último año de estudios de ingeniería. El análisis de regresión lineal encontró que todas las variables tienen una relación significativa a excepción de la variable conocimientos técnicos en ingeniería, lo cual indica que la capacidad de innovación no es exclusiva de esta área.

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Accounting for the Digitalization Factor in Assessing Territorial Competitiveness

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon

Capacidades de Innovación de los estudiantes de ingeniería: Caso de una universidad pública del noreste de México

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