TY - GEN
T1 - Smart city as urban innovation
T2 - 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2011
AU - Nam, Taewoo
AU - Pardo, Theresa A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Public sector innovation
KW - Smart city
KW - Sociotechnical perspective
KW - Urban innovation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84855404899
U2 - 10.1145/2072069.2072100
DO - 10.1145/2072069.2072100
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855404899
SN - 9781450307468
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 185
EP - 194
BT - ICEGOV 2011 - 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Proceedings
Y2 - 26 September 2011 through 28 September 2011
ER -
