Author, as appears in the article.: Manjon, Miguel; Aouni, Zineb; Crutzen, Nathalie;
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Manjón Antolín, Miguel Carlos
Keywords: R11 Perspective Models Level L26 Determinants City
Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between the implementation of smart city initiatives and the number of new firms, paying special attention to the rates of green and digital entrepreneurship as smart cities tend to follow sustainable and/or digital orientations. We find evidence of a positive (causal) relation between smart city initiatives and entrepreneurship rates in a sample of Belgian municipalities, particularly when these initiatives follow a bottom-up approach and/or the level of implementation is high. In contrast, having sustainable and/or digital orientations in smart city initiatives does not generally make any difference in the rates of entrepreneurship, the exception being the digital rates in large municipalities. These results suggest that the smart city initiatives may be acting as a local entrepreneurship-supporting policy. They also support the view that smart cities are mainly (but not only) associated with technological developments (in large cities).
Thematic Areas: Social sciences (miscellaneous) Social sciences (all) Regional & urban planning Interdisciplinar Geography General social sciences General environmental science Farmacia Environmental studies Environmental science (miscellaneous) Environmental science (all) Engenharias iii Economics Economia Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: miguel.manjon@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-6291-9480
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Annals Of Regional Science. 68 (2): 429-462
APA: Manjon, Miguel; Aouni, Zineb; Crutzen, Nathalie; (2022). Green and digital entrepreneurship in smart cities. Annals Of Regional Science, 68(2), 429-462. DOI: 10.1007/s00168-021-01080-z
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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