- You are here:
-
Home
-
English (UK)
-
Past Issues
- Volume XVI, Issue 1, 2018/1
Nowadays with the accelerating globalization the smart city development and the application of smart technologies is getting even more emphasis in several parts of the world, and in almost every continents. The cause for it is that the cities have to react on the rapidly changing conditions with the accelerating of globalization (e.g.: challenges of increasing population, city services, problems of the economies of scale), and to this they need new and recent solutions. In that approach the concept of smart cities can give innovative solutions for the future of cities.
In this recent research we examine the possible concepts and measurement solutions of smart cities, representing the best practices applied in the literature. In the analysis we have created a complex index based on the synthesis of the measurement methods, which can measure the performance of the smart cities by six components. In the research we have analysed the smart performance of some cities in the Visegrad countries and we have created the ranking of the 10 settlements. Th e results underlie that with except of Bratislava, the capital cities show outstanding smart performance based on the complex index. In 2015, the best performing city was Prague among the analysed ones, which was followed by Budapest and Warsaw. It is important to mention, that in case of the given components there is a huge standard deviation among the best and worst performing cities.
Keywords: smart city, measurement, Visegrad countries, complex index
The literature pays increasing attention to the analysis of the regions’ innovation potential, basically because of its active contribution to the economic growth and competitiveness. Beside the natural sciences based innovation, the researchers emphasize the role of social innovation in their works, which can give an alternative solution principally in the case of settlements which are in a relatively peripheral situation. Th e convergence of peripheral regions has high priority in the European Union; that is why the experts of the EU examine the territorial inequalities for several decades.
The state of territorial inequalities is a critical problem also in the case of Hungary, with special regards on the Northern Hungarian region’s settlements. Character of the region is that it is based on the most important socio-economic indicators in a relatively disadvantaged, peripheral situation, and can be characterized by high level inner socio-economic disparities. Th e author’s aim is twofold.
First, the author summarizes the main theories, concepts and defi nitions of social innovation, and after that examines the attempts in the literature, which were made to measure the social innovation potential. Second, the author’s aim is to create and test an adequate method to measure the social innovation potential of the Northern Hungarian region’s settlements with regards on the examples of the literature. Th e article pays signifi cant attention on the sectoral distribution of the enterprises acting in the settlements, on the activity of the non-profi t organizations, on the gained EU supports, and on the qualifi cation of the inhabitants.
Keywords: social innovation, measurement, spatial inequalities, Northern Hungarian region, settlement level analysis
In the past three decades innovation played a key role in the explanation of local, regional and county level development and competitiveness. Th is study gives an overlook on this development. It emphasizes the question of social innovation as a new development-paradigm.
Keywords: technological innovation, social innovation, regional development, economic growth
Present Issue
The "Erdélyi Társadalom" journal is indexed in the following international databases:
Index Copernicus
News
Call for papers : The social history of …
2021-03-31
Editor: Horváth István (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) State socialism was a social-historical reality, in the forms of life and life situations it created / allowed. Its lifestyle project: the residential area with blocks of...
Bővebben...Supporters of the journal
