Smart cities in perspective - a comparative European study by means of self-organizing maps

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-246

  Kourtit, Karima ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a   Arribas, Daniel ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cities' performance; concentration; creative cities; geographic knowledge spillovers; location; proximity externalities; self organizing maps; smart cities; urbanization

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DATABASE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84860336192     PISSN: 13511610     EISSN: 14698412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2012.660330     Document Type: Article

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