Smart cities as a source for entrepreneurial opportunities: Evidence for Spain

Barba‐Sánchez, Virginia; Arias, Enrique; Orozco-Barbosa, L.

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119713

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“…Second, smart city transitions clearly result from co-evolutionary and mutually reinforcing endogenous and exogenous developments (Barba-Sánchez et al, 2019;Simmons et al, 2018;Trencher, 2019), which take place at the three levels of aggregation identified in the MLP framework (see Geels et al, 2017b): sociotechnical landscape (macro-level); sociotechnical systems for urban service provision (meso-level); urban innovation niches (micro-level). Although we know that smart city transitions strongly depend upon local arrangements, the general dynamic is that, when these endogenous and exogenous developments combine, new configurations of urban sociotechnical systems surface.…”

Section: The Landscape-system-niche Connection In Smart City Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Mora

Deakin

Batty

et al. 2020

Journal of Urban Technology

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This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.

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Section: The Landscape-system-niche Connection In Smart City Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Mora

Deakin

Batty

et al. 2020

Journal of Urban Technology

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“…A smart city has social capital and it could be possible and easier to create an intelligent urban concept if there is a mix of education and education, culture and arts, business, as well as commerce. In addition, it can become a source of entrepreneurial opportunities (Barba-S anchez, Arias-Ant unez, & Orozco- Barbosa, 2019;Sousa, Mel e, & G omez, 2020).…”

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Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

Strielkowski

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Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly popular in the world's major metropolises as one of the leading components of the "smart" city. We compare the efficiency of LED street lighting used in smart cities with a commonly used lighting system based on sodium lamps. Our results demonstrate that LED street lighting system can significantly reduce the energy demand of any modern city. Moreover, we show that smart grids might help distribution systems within smart cities to better integrate intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The main research novelty of our study compared to previous studies from the literature is the estimation of net profit (NP), Net Discounted Savings (NDS), as well as the total savings (TS) using the example of an average European metropolis. Our findings show that there is a need for better management including strong networks of leaders to drive smart city policies and investments and to cover wider city areas with economically sustainable projects and plans. In addition, our findings yield that smart city projects should aim at finding solution for smart connected local energy storage systems to support more renewable energy sources on the power grids. Our results might be of a special interest for city planners, local government stakeholders, as well as urban policy makers dealing with planning and managing smart cities.

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“…On the other hand, the term has also been applied to soft domains where approaches toward culture and social inclusion in a smart city are supposed to offer environments for entrepreneurship that are accessible to all citizens. In the study of Barbara-Sancheze [32], the role of smart city as a generator of new entrepreneurial initiatives has been explored in Spain by confirming the relationship between smart cities and the entrepreneurship rate. The taken aspect of the smart cities in this research concerns ICT provided opportunities such as social network services, and therefore social capital utilization for entrepreneurial ecosystem activities.…”

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Impact of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discussions in Smart Cities: Comprehensive Assessment of Social Media Data

Hajikhani

2020

Smart Cities

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Discussions on “smart cities” are gaining in popularity in the past two decades and has shown potential in tackling the cities’ environmental, social, and economic challenges. Smart cities are known as a system of physical infrastructure, the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, and the social infrastructure that exchange information that flows between its many different subsystems. The “smart cities” concept has been introduced with various dimensions, among those, the embedded ICT infrastructure in smart cities is playing a decisive role between the functions of the system. One of the important derivatives of ICT is the new communication mediums known as social network services (SNSs), which is emergent and introduces additional functionalities to “smart cities”. This paper seeks to advance the understanding of SNSs in smart cities to evaluate the effects on the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. This agenda has been tackled by a rigorous methodological approach in order to capture and evaluate the presence of entrepreneurially concerned discussions in a popular SNS intermediate (Twitter). Beyond the methodological contribution on handling big data in SNSs for gaining insights on innovation and entrepreneurial aspects in smart cities, the findings distinguished the influence of a certain category of content generators (professionals) that drive the biggest motives of the interactions in SNSs.

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Smart cities as a source for entrepreneurial opportunities: Evidence for Spain

Cited by 61 publications

References 66 publications

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

Impact of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Discussions in Smart Cities: Comprehensive Assessment of Social Media Data

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