Smart city as urban innovation: Focusing on management, policy, and context

Taewoo Nam; Theresa A. Pardo

doi:10.1145/2072069.2072100

Smart city as urban innovation: Focusing on management, policy, and context

Taewoo Nam
, Theresa A. Pardo

SUNY Albany

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611 Scopus citations

Abstract

This paper sees a smart city not as a status of how smart a city is but as a city's effort to make itself smart. The connotation of a smart city represents city innovation in management and policy as well as technology. Since the unique context of each city shapes the technological, organizational and policy aspects of that city, a smart city can be considered a contextualized interplay among technological innovation, managerial and organizational innovation, and policy innovation. However, only little research discusses innovation in management and policy while the literature of technology innovation is abundant. This paper aims to fill the research gap by building a comprehensive framework to view the smart city movement as innovation comprised of technology, management and policy. We also discuss inevitable risks from innovation, strategies to innovate while avoiding risks, and contexts underlying innovation and risks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICEGOV 2011 - 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Proceedings
Pages	185-194
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2072069.2072100
State	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2011 - Tallinn, Estonia Duration: 26 Sep 2011 → 28 Sep 2011

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2011
Country/Territory	Estonia
City	Tallinn
Period	26/09/11 → 28/09/11

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Public sector innovation
Smart city
Sociotechnical perspective
Urban innovation

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Nam, T & Pardo, TA 2011, Smart city as urban innovation: Focusing on management, policy, and context. in ICEGOV 2011 - 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Proceedings. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 185-194, 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2011, Tallinn, Estonia, 26/09/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2072069.2072100

Smart city as urban innovation: Focusing on management, policy, and context. / Nam, Taewoo; Pardo, Theresa A.
ICEGOV 2011 - 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Proceedings. 2011. p. 185-194 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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