Smart cities and challenges for European integration

Robert Rothe, Małgorzata Rutkowska and Adam Sulich

No WORMS/18/04, WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) from Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: European integration is a multidimensional process, which can be seen both in economic and innovations aspects. The growth of importance of digitalization and smart cities development can be analyzed as a factor of European integration. A significant number of smart cities, which may be connected in a network, is located in Western Europe. This article reflects on searching for European Integration conditions as was as for turning points in digitalization process. It is intended to draw attention to several issues related to European Integration, which are crucial from the vantage point of Europe’s prospective development. Location of smart cities and their networks indicates on weak innovation capacity and development disparities in some member countries of European Union. Therefore, smart cities can be also an indicator of European integration process but their wider cooperation can create new solutions for developing regions of European Union.

Keywords: European Integration; Smart city; Smart cities network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 L86 N14 O18 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2018-04-15
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Published in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on European Integration 2018, ICEI 2018 : May 17-18, 2018, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Pt. 3 / [Eds. Michaela Staníčková i in.]. Ostrava : VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, cop. 2018.

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