Chiara Del Bo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a focussed and operational definition of the concept of smart city and present consistent evidence on the geography of smart cities in the EU27, finding that the presence of a creative class, the quality of and dedicated attention to the urban environment, the level of education, multimodal accessibility and the use of ICTs for public administration are all positively correlated with urban wealth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the urban innovation impact of smart city policies and find that cities engaging in Smart City policies above the EU average also tend to patent more intensively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the return to infrastructure in the European Union regions in a spatial framework and identified the highest rates of return as associated with telecommunication, quality and accessibility of transportation networks, with a positive impact of roads and railways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a comprehensive definition of smart city and examine whether and how the main characteristics of urban smartness are growth-enhancing, and assess the city-specific impacts on urban performance of a complex smartness indicator by applying a Spatial Autoregressive Local Estimate to an urban production function.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale evaluation of the relationship between urban smartness and smart urban policies has been attempted, and the empirical results suggest that Smart City policies are more likely to be designed and implemented in cities that are already endowed with smart characteristics.