Smart, Sustainable and Citizen Centered: A Network Analysis of Urban R&D Trends in Seoul, South Korea

Bo Wang, Sang Do Park, Jong Youl Lee and Jesse W. Campbell
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Bo Wang: Department of Public Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Sang Do Park: Department of Global Business, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea
Jong Youl Lee: Department of Public Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Jesse W. Campbell: Department of Public Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: Although it is now recognized that place matters for urban development policy, most case studies focusing on particular cities tend to adopt a high-level perspective that imperfectly captures the full spectrum of context-relevant urban development issues. This study applies semantic network analysis to a corpus of 13,852 accepted R&D project proposals on issues related to the urban development of Seoul, South Korea. Through our analysis, we highlight important research trends and also make connections between these trends and the policy orientation and priorities of successive mayoral administrations over a period of 16 years. Although the results suggest that there is significant overlap between policy orientation and scientific research activity, the interests of research scientists cannot be reduced entirely to political priorities. The study contributes to the literature by fusing the place-based approach to urban development studies with the computational content analysis methodology. We raise several questions for future research, including questions about the relationship between policy priorities, scientific research, and academic research.

Keywords: urban development; semantic network analysis; Seoul (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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