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Smart city networks' governance: The Spanish smart city network case study

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  • Palomo-Navarro, Álvaro
  • Navío-Marco, Julio

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The governance of smart city networks emerges as a new research area intersecting smart governance and public networks studies. This work aims to contribute to the literature on smart cities governance by studying councillor's governance in complex networks and on network performance. To carry out this analysis, the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI), one of the first of its kind and an international reference for city networks, is reviewed as a case study, with the main objective of establishing a theory on its global innovation capacity and operations, together with the local level spurring influenced on its members. A PEST (Political, Economic, Social and Technological) analysis was carried out in order to assess the impact of the smart city network both at local, national and international level. This research was completed with a consultation carried out among some of RECI's municipalities. The analysis of the results shows how RECI can be considered an example of a well organised network with quantifiable savings for its members, capable of configuring future policies in local administration, necessarily related to efficiency, digitalization and citizen-centricity and with key topics to build the future. The study also suggests recommendations oriented to potential improvements that smart city networks could undertake.

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  • Palomo-Navarro, Álvaro & Navío-Marco, Julio, 2018. "Smart city networks' governance: The Spanish smart city network case study," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(10), pages 872-880.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:42:y:2018:i:10:p:872-880
    DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2017.10.002
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