Introduction -- Smart and Digital City: A Systematic Literature Review -- Comparing Smart and Digital City: Project and Strategies in Amsterdam and Genova. Are they Digital and/or Smart? -- Smart, Smarter, Smartest: Redefining our Cities -- Recommendations to Improve the Smartness of a City --...

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel...

In forschungsintensiven Industrien nimmt die räumliche Konzentration von Akteuren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik immer größeren Einfluss auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen. Zusätzlich unterstützen strukturpolitische Maßnahmen die Etablierung von Clusterinitiativen, um die...

The economics of regional clusters, where business formation, technological innovation, and the emergence of a highly-skilled labor force converge, has become a popular topic. This fascinating book applies a variety of tools and models to analyze, in depth, the formation and growth of high-tech...

In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf. The volume presents insightful analyses and identifies key lessons learned through case studies covering four...

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-researched provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, which make up a quarter of China's...

This volume discusses post-socialist urban transport functioning and development in Russia, within the context of the country’s recent transition towards a market economy. Over the past twenty-five years, urban transport in Russia has undergone serious transformations, prompted by the...