1st Edition

Smart Development in Smart Communities

Edited By Gilberto Antonelli, Giuseppe Cappiello Copyright 2017
348 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both from the research and policy angles. To date, the focus in smart specialization has been on what regions as a whole can do to bring about innovation, but it hasn’t necessarily addressed the role cities play within the field. This book aims to address that... Read more

List of figures



List of tables



About the contributors



Foreword by Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano





Introduction



GILBERTO ANTONELLI AND GIANCARLO CAMPRI





PART I: Conceptualizing the idea of smart development





I.1 Smart specialization



1 Issues and challenges for smart specialisation



RICCARDO LEONCINI



2 Smart specialization and models of capitalism



LUCA CATTANI AND GIOVANNI GUIDETTI



3 Smart specialization and supply-side outcomes in an industrial policy perspective



PATRIZIO BIANCHI AND SILVANO BERTINI





I.2 Smart city



4 Issues and challenges for smart cities



NICOLA DE LISO AND LUCA ZAMPARINI



5 Human capital and the new geography of jobs



LUCA CATTANI, GIOVANNI GUIDETTI AND GIULIO PEDRINI



6 Smart cities, social goods and demand-side outcomes in a regional policy perspective



GILBERTO ANTONELLI





I.3 Smart development



7 Smart development, local production systems and related variety



GILBERTO ANTONELLI AND RICCARDO LEONCINI



8 Smart development as a criss-crossed outcome of smart specialization and smart city strategies



GILBERTO ANTONELLI



PART II: Measuring and applying smart local development





9 Smartness indicators in the European urban framework



DOREL NICOLAE MANITIU AND GIULIO PEDRINI



10 Smart development and smart utilities: an international comparison



ANDREA PALIANI, GIUSEPPE CAPPIELLO AND GIANLUCA DI PASQUALE



11 Smart development in regional economies: the specificities of Southern Italy in the European frame



COSIMO CASILLI, VALENTINO MORETTO AND GIULIO PEDRINI



12 Smart development in regional economies: the Emilia-Romagna Region in the European frame



Biography

Gilberto Antonelli is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy.



Giuseppe Cappiello is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Bologna, Italy.