“Openness” of public governments in smart cities: removing the barriers for innovation and entrepreneurship

Ferraris, Alberto; Santoro, Gabriele; Pellicelli, Anna Claudia

doi:10.1007/s11365-020-00651-4

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“…Recent literature on innovation and entrepreneurship has highlighted how the complexity of today’s business environment requires collaborative efforts by multiple actors (Bogers et al 2018 ; Chesbrough and Bogers 2014 ; Enkel et al 2020 ; Roundy 2017 ). This tendency is strongly eradicated in policymakers’ initiatives aimed at building formally structured clusters based on geographical proximity (Ferraris et al 2020 ; Radziwon and Bogers 2019 ) to stimulate collaboration and higher innovation performance (Nestle et al 2019 ; Parmentola et al 2020 ). This of course also applies to low- and medium-low tech SMEs (hereafter, traditional SMEs) that are called to deal with the paradox of depending on external partners while having limited resources to manage such collaborative processes (De Bernardi et al 2020 ; Santoro et al 2018 ; Radziwon and Bogers 2019 ).…”

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Challenges to open innovation in traditional SMEs: an analysis of pre-competitive projects in university-industry-government collaboration

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Governments are increasingly focusing their efforts on stimulating innovation within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As a result, university-industry-government collaboration is gaining importance among the agenda of policymakers to enable open innovation in SMEs. However, these inter-organisational relationships often fail to meet expectations, especially when projects are oriented to pre-competitive R&D. Nevertheless, the literature has not yet provided sufficient evidence of the challenges related to the participation of traditional SMEs (i.e., low- and medium-low tech SMEs) in this specific type of collaboration. We collected qualitative data to analyse longitudinally three pre-competitive projects, exploring the main challenges faced by traditional SMEs. We have bracketed the projects in four phases: initiation and planning phase, execution phase, closing phase, and monitoring and control phase. For each of these phases we have individuated firm- and project-level challenges, providing practical and theoretical insights for open innovation scholars.

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“…Approximately 70% of the world's population is estimated to live in urban areas by 2050 [8]. This is important because proximity and population density are important factors that facilitate information and knowledge transfer [9,10], a decisive process in the context of innovation [11].…”

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Multidimensional Facets of Entrepreneurial Resilience during the COVID-19 Crisis through the Lens of the Wealthiest Romanian Counties

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Sustainable socio-economic development can be looked upon from multiple perspectives, but no longer without considering the roles of urban planning, smart cities and eco-innovative entrepreneurial initiatives. In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, ensuring sustainable socio-economic development is definitely challenging, but not impossible if adopting appropriate measures. This research aimed at analyzing the multidimensional facets of entrepreneurial resilience during times of crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, while focusing on the effects experienced in the wealthiest areas, specific to urban agglomerations. The research method consisted of constructing a composite indicator comprising appropriate components for assessing the level of wealth and “happiness” of all the Romanian counties. Through the lens of this composite indicator, entrepreneurial resilience was approached in multiple manners according to its diverse forms. Research findings highlight that entrepreneurial resilience tends to be stronger qualitatively and quantitatively in less developed areas than in those that are well developed, mainly due to the lack of entrepreneurial initiatives. Despite being less entrepreneurially resilient, qualitatively, the wealthiest Romanian counties can economically reinvent themselves quicker.

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“…Besides, different performance assessment systems and reward and punishment mechanisms help tackle down the bottleneck problem when promoting smart government affairs. For instance, the construction of the intelligent government information ecological assessment system, the influencing mechanism, and functional relationship among the driving force, the pressure, and the state and response factors are clarified to enhance the comprehensive serviceability of smart government affairs [13]. Given the service quality and satisfaction of smart government [12], the assessment index [14] for enhancing the administrative performance of the local government is set to promote the steady development of smart government.…”

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Research on Collaborative Governance of Smart Government Based on Blockchain Technology: An Evolutionary Approach

Shan

Duan

Zhang

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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Smart government is an important means of optimizing government management, improving the government decision-making capacity, and pushing forward the public service. When the smart government process applies, the dire straits of collaborative governance among the different participants could not be ignored usually caused by maximizing their profits. Based on the current research, this paper introduces the blockchain technology into the smart government system and establishes a smart government platform architecture. Meanwhile, to analyse the evolutionary and stable strategies of the three parties under the blockchain technology, the evolutionary game model including functional departments, local governments, and end users as the main players is established on account of the bounded rationality. By examining the “blockchain + government service” in Beijing with the systemic dynamics theory, this paper changes the influencing factors simulated by changing the parameter assignment, to determine the evolutionary stable equilibrium under different external conditions. The results show that local government supervision plays a leading role in the process of collaborative governance of smart government based on blockchain technology; meanwhile, effective cost control is a key factor affecting the evolutionary stability strategy (ESS). Besides, the “decentralized” structure, “distrust” architecture, and “precision” mechanism of the blockchain are verified for the effect of the evolution process. Among them, precision service and flat management improve the possibility of collaborative governance, but the impact of the trust mechanism is not obvious. Therefore, the collaborative governance model of smart government based on blockchain technology is loaded with far-reaching significance for promoting the modernization of China’s governance capacity and governance system.

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“Openness” of public governments in smart cities: removing the barriers for innovation and entrepreneurship

Cited by 84 publications

References 80 publications

Challenges to open innovation in traditional SMEs: an analysis of pre-competitive projects in university-industry-government collaboration

Challenges to open innovation in traditional SMEs: an analysis of pre-competitive projects in university-industry-government collaboration

Multidimensional Facets of Entrepreneurial Resilience during the COVID-19 Crisis through the Lens of the Wealthiest Romanian Counties

Research on Collaborative Governance of Smart Government Based on Blockchain Technology: An Evolutionary Approach

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