The Smart City as an opportunity for entrepreneurship

Richter, Chris; Kraus, Sascha; Syrjä, Pasi

doi:10.1504/ijev.2015.071481

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“…This environment can be viewed as made up of a physical dimension (e.g., roads, public parks, and sewage pipelines) and a socio-cultural dimension (e.g., common beliefs, laws, and practices). This is consistent with the widely adopted view of the city as a socio-technical [21] or social-ecological system [56].…”

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“…In particular, the smart city context is characterized by a strong interdependence between the city government, the citizens, and the city's ecosystems of researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs [21]. We argue that this interdependence poses unprecedented challenges to organization and management scholars.…”

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“…A growing line of research proposes, instead, a bottom-up, actor-oriented architecture [62] for managing smart city initiatives [63,64]. This line of research converges with the steadily growing attention to local entrepreneurship as the core engine of viable smart innovation [21,[64][65][66][67][68], because entrepreneurs can (re)build new tailored business models that fit a specific city's needs and conditions. However, a higher-level vision of the city's sustainable future is needed to orient entrepreneurs' efforts, and the government plays an often irreplaceable role in providing this vision, bringing the necessary resources and facilitating the interactions between the relevant actors that are expected to contribute to smart city initiatives [15].…”

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

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Despite the impressive growth of smart city initiatives worldwide, an organizational theory of smart city has yet to be developed, and we lack models addressing the unprecedented organizational and management challenges that emerge in smart city contexts. Traditional models are often of little use, because smart cities pursue different goals than traditional organizations, are based on networked, cross-boundary activity systems, rely on distributed innovation processes, and imply adaptive policy-making. Complex combinations of factors may lead to vicious or virtuous cycles in smart city initiatives, but we know very little about how these factors may be identified and mapped. Based on an inductive study of a set of primary and secondary sources, we develop a framework for the configurational analysis of smart cities viewed as place-specific organizational fields. This framework identifies five key dimensions in the configurations of smart city fields; these five dimensions are mapped through five sub-frameworks, which can be used both separately as well as for an integrated analysis. Our contribution is conceived to support longitudinal studies, natural experiments and comparative analyses on smart city fields, and to improve our understanding of how different combinations of factors affect the capability of smart innovations to translate into city resilience, sustainability and quality of life. In addition, our results suggest that new forms of place-based entrepreneurship constitute the engine that allows for the dynamic collaboration between government, citizens and research centers in successful smart city organizational fields.

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

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“…More precisely, we studied specific characteristics of Smart Cities through the perspective of entrepreneurs who operate in them. As the study of Smart Cities reflects an infant research field (Tranos & Gertner, ; Richter et al, ), a qualitative case study approach was considered suitable (Gibbert, Ruigrok, & Wicki, ). A case study ‘attempts to examine: (a) a contemporary phenomenon in its real‐life context, especially when (b) the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident’ (Yin, , p. 59).…”

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“…Smart Cities are agglomerated areas of high concentrations of learning and innovation (Richter et al, , p. 216). In such areas creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, coupled with digital infrastructure, aim to drive economic growth and a better quality of life.…”

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Innovating and Exploiting Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Smart Cities: Evidence from Germany

Kraus¹,

Richter²,

Papagiannidis³

et al. 2015

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Smart City initiatives are considered a vehicle for achieving sustainable development of urban growth. This paper explores the conditions and factors that affect innovation in Smart Cities from an entrepreneurial vantage point. Data was obtained through a series of interviews with German entrepreneurs active in Smart Cities. Beyond examining the importance of a set of factors that originate from the extant literature, our findings suggest that entrepreneurs believe that Smart City initiatives need a clear vision to drive their development and growth and that government has a key role to play in bringing the necessary resources and stakeholders together.

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Digital Urban Networks and Social Media

Allam¹

2019

Cities and the Digital Revolution

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The Smart City as an opportunity for entrepreneurship

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Innovating and Exploiting Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Smart Cities: Evidence from Germany

Digital Urban Networks and Social Media

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