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How Do Smart Cities Impact on Sustainable Urban Growth and on Opportunities for Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Portugal: The Case of Águeda

2018; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-96032-6_3

2511-2031

Gonçalo Santinha, Ana Dias, Mário Rodrigues, Alexandra Queirós, Carlos Rodrigues, Nelson Pacheco Rocha,

Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

This chapter presents a case study that illustrates how the local structures of a developing medium-sized city in Portugal have been capable of, in times of public budget shortfalls, introducing structural changes based on the conceptualization of a smart city. Focusing on the case of Águeda, a city whose population is currently around 48 thousand inhabitants and whose economy is heavily based on manufacturing industries, with a predominance of micro-enterprises, the study explores how the concept of smart city has emerged and has been applied in a specific context and accordingly the extent to which public value has been generated.