Smart innovative cities: The impact of Smart City policies on urban innovation

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 142, Issue , 2019, Pages 373-383

  Caragliu, Andrea ^a   Del Bo, Chiara F ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Program evaluation; Propensity score matching; Smart City

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; SMART CITY; URBAN GROWTH;

METROPOLITAN AREA; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; PATENT APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING; PUBLIC AUTHORITIES; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL SPILLOVERS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EUROPEAN UNION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; SMART CITY; URBAN POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 85050759527     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.022     Document Type: Article

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