Smart cities as a source for entrepreneurial opportunities: Evidence for Spain
| Autor: | Luis Orozco-Barbosa, Enrique Arias-Antúnez, Virginia Barba-Sánchez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Entrepreneurship
Index (economics) Process (engineering) 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Knowledge spillover Management of Technology and Innovation Smart city 0502 economics and business Unemployment 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business Business and International Management Marketing Empirical evidence 050203 business & management Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 148:119713 |
| ISSN: | 0040-1625 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119713 |
| Popis: | In the context of economic crisis, it is necessary to drive changes in the productive model towards a smart society. Particularly in urban areas, the Smart City movement has become an agent for change to help fight the loss of competitiveness and unemployment. Literature review shows that there is little regarding the generation of knowledge and entrepreneurial activity in the context of a smart city and in Spain in particular. This study contributes to filling this gap. We start by identifying the potential sources of entrepreneurial opportunities that a medium-sized smart city may offer based on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship. We then provide empirical evidence that the Smart City label has positively influenced the effective creation of new businesses. To this end, we examine 44 Spanish Smart City initiatives included and classified in the Smart City Index according to their smartness level. Our results confirm the relation between the Smart City label and the entrepreneurship rate. Moreover, they allow us to present some relevant considerations and implications concerning the maturing process of Smart City initiatives. These considerations are of particular interest for those agents involved in the smart city entrepreneurial ecosystem. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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