Investigating the entrepreneurial perspective in smart city studies
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Investigating the entrepreneurial perspective in smart city studies Eusebio Scornavacca 1 & Francesco Paolone 2 & Stefano Za 3 & Laura Martiniello 2 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Although the concept of smart cities has been largely discussed in the literature for over almost three decades, there is still a need to better understand the entrepreneurial aspects surrounding smart cities. This study aims to explore the evolutionary trends of research in the field of Smart Cities, and specifically, to unveil the entrepreneurial aspects prevailing in the literature. With the support of bibliometric analysis and social network analysis tools this paper identifies the foundations and most active areas on smart cities research over the past 20 years. It also scrutinizes and highlights the entrepreneurial aspects prevailing in the smart cities body of knowledge. It provides a critique of the current state-of–the-art of entrepreneurial research in the smart cities future research directions by analyzing the collaboration among the authors and the relation between the knowledge creation and the impact of its results. Keywords Smart cities . Entrepreneurship . Bibliometric analysis . Social network analysis
Introduction The widespread availability of digital ecosystems has supported the emergence of different forms of smart solutions addressing urban and environmental challenges. The development * Francesco Paolone [email protected] Eusebio Scornavacca [email protected] Stefano Za [email protected] Laura Martiniello [email protected]
1
University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
2
Mercatorum University, Rome, Italy
3
University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
of smart cities consists in the creation or improvement of citizen services by leveraging the affordances of digital ecosystems (Cocchia 2014; Neirotti et al. 2014; Meijer and Bolívar 2016; Hollands 2008). As a result, smart cities create a revised vision of the city’s role in the economic and social context and a pervasive use of technological innovations, particularly digital tools that facilitate interconnection of different stakeholders. In this context, one of the key aspects of smart city initiatives is the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Tel Aviv1 smart city model provides a good example as it focused on strong entrepreneurial aspects and has several significant strengths for exploiting business opportunities for creative industries in the city. Another example of successful smart city development is the case of Santander.2 From an urban development perspective, the city of Santander focused on the consolidation of the fabric of local businesses, the improvement in the quality of residents’ life, the reduction of urban services costs and the positioning of the city as a world leader in the field of innovation. According to Bresciani et al. (2017), smart cities facilitate the connection among the
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