The Quadruple Helix Model as a Smart City Design Principle

Abstract

The article presents considerations on the quadruple helix model as a principle of smart city design in which technological and social innovations result from cooperation and seeking synergies among four groups of stakeholders: administration, business, science and residents. The overriding goal of this synergy should be to improve the quality of residents’ life in various dimensions of their individual and socio-professional functioning. An optimal model of urban management and creation of a Smart City and a Smart Sustainable City is based on knowledge, properly disseminated and distributed, as a condition for acquiring interdisciplinary competences. The cities develop for their inhabitants, without whom they become empty and die. Therefore, a holistic model of managing a Smart City should be adopted, aiming at shaping a Smart Sustainable City on this basis, i.e. taking such management solutions that do not exclude any group of stakeholders and any urban system or subsystem bearing in mind the environment and future generations. In the article, the authors present selected solutions for creating Smart Cities and Smart Sustainable Cities based on the top-down model and bottom-up model, recognizing, at the same time, that well-designed synergy among the entities of the quadruple helix is based on knowledge and its proper dissemination and distribution.

The Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Use on Human Development—A Macroeconomic Approach

“…A measure that is often used as an indicator of human development that also serves as an indicator of economic development, as it includes all important dimensions of human development, such as income, education, and health, is the Human Development Index (HDI). The authors must concede that the HDI does not fully reflect quality of life, as it does not capture the subjective side of human life, such as life satisfaction and self-esteem, which also affect the economic sphere (Kuzior and Kuzior 2020). However, it serves as a reasonable measure that is widely accepted in the empirical literature.…”

The Factorial-Reflexive Approach to Diagnosing the Executors’ and Contractors’ Attitude to Achieving the Objectives by Energy Supplying Companies

“…In addition, the factor-reflexive approach presented in the article can be integrated into already existing models of economic sustainability [3,[8][9][10]14,15,19,23,24,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], and can also be used to form and adjust strategies of various scales and areas of management.…”

“…Research [8][9][10] on choosing effective strategies for financial investment in the smart city is grounded on reflexive influences on the choice. As the analysis of publications [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] shows, the scholars do not offer actual recommendations for considering reflexive influences in the search for sustainable strategies relative to financial investment in these areas of human activity. Besides, as recognized by the authors [13,18], there was proposed a model of adaptive properties that require adjustment even if there is a slight strengthening of a reflective component and changing boundary conditions for investors analyzing the smart city attractiveness.…”

The Systemic Approach for Estimating and Strategizing Energy Security: The Case of Ukraine

“…The energy security should be directly attributed to the areas of national security that ensure the realization of one of the fundamental national interests-sustainable development of the national economy, while ensuring other national interests-state sovereignty and independence [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46].…”