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To Be or Not to Be a Smart City: An Empirical Study of the Innovations Highlighted on City Websites
[Être ou ne pas être une smart city : une étude empirique des innovations valorisées sur le site web des villes]

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  • Thierry Côme

    (LAREQUOI - Laboratoire de recherche en Management - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

  • Stephane Magne

    (PRISM Sorbonne - Pôle de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences du management - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, LAREQUOI - Laboratoire de recherche en Management - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

  • Alexandre Steyer

    (UP1 EMS - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - École de Management de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Abstract

The "innovation" dimension of major French cities is now widely emphasized, but what does it actually reveal about the construction of their discourse on their official websites? How does this innovation discourse shape their city brand identity? To explore this phenomenon, the corpus includes the full textual content of the websites of the 18 French cities with more than 150,000 inhabitants. A smart data analysis is conducted to compare cities classified as "smart cities" (according to the Vienna ranking) with those that are not. The findings show that cities benefit from communicating concrete, citizen-oriented innovation in order to strengthen their smart city image. By contrast, promoting abstract and future-oriented innovation alone does not suffice to establish a credible "smart" positioning.

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  • Thierry Côme & Stephane Magne & Alexandre Steyer, 2019. "To Be or Not to Be a Smart City: An Empirical Study of the Innovations Highlighted on City Websites [Être ou ne pas être une smart city : une étude empirique des innovations valorisées sur le site web des villes]," Post-Print hal-05522417, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05522417
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05522417v1
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