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What is Smart Citizens

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities
Within the purview of this chapter, smart citizens are people who make wise and sustainable business decisions that contribute to the general quality of life of populations and the spaces they occupy.
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Smart Citizens, Wise Decisions: Sustainability-Driven Tourism Entrepreneurs
Maria de Lurdes Calisto (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal) and Ana Gonçalves (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal & Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch002
Abstract
This chapter takes as its research starting point a critical and convergent review and reexamination of existing theory and knowledge about entrepreneurship and sustainability. We question whether smart cities provide the ideal context for sustainability entrepreneurship (SE) to emerge and how sustainability-driven entrepreneurs can contribute to the development of smarter and more sustainable tourism destinations. Hence, we examine SE tourism and hospitality businesses implemented by these so-called ‘smart citizens' in Lisbon (Portugal), a city that arguably provides the necessary context for smart decisions to flourish. This chapter thus aims at opening up new modes of inquiry and questioning existing epistemologies on the study of smart cities and entrepreneurship that help breaking new ground about the role of entrepreneurs in the tourism activity.
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