The Impact of a Special Economic Zone Management on the Development of Modern Sectors and Technologies in a Polish Metropolis: The Smart City Context

Grzegorz Kinelski, Karolina Mucha-Kuś, Jakub Stęchły, Zbigniew J. Makieła, Jacek Kamiński () and Magdalena Stefańska
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Karolina Mucha-Kuś: Department of Management, Akademia WSB, Cieplaka 1c, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Jakub Stęchły: Veolia Energy Contracting Poland Sp. z o.o., Puławska 2, 02-566 Warszawa, Poland
Zbigniew J. Makieła: Department of Management, Akademia WSB, Cieplaka 1c, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Jacek Kamiński: Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wybickiego 7A, 31-261 Kraków, Poland
Magdalena Stefańska: Department of Marketing Strategies, Institute of Marketing, Poznań University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: The development of the high-tech sector has so far been studied within the cities, leaving their functioning within the special economic zones in the context of metropolitan belonging unexplored. The main purpose of the article is to determine whether the economic zone has a positive impact on the economic development of cities, which in the context of this research, has been operationalized with the use of computer-aided systems. The authors purposefully choose a Metropolis GZM, Poland (GZM), and Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSEZ). The importance of the high-tech sector in the GZM depends on the development of business in the region. Innovative specializations of cities located in the KSEZ were examined from the point of view of their perception by users of these new technologies, i.e., city residents. The research was conducted among over 1000 inhabitants of 16 cities in the GZM Metropolis. The results show correlations between the existence of modern businesses in metropolitan cities and their development of useful technologies, perceived from the perspective of residents.

Keywords: special economic zone; special economic zone management; smart city; decarbonisation; metropolitan regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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