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What is Smart Territories

Chapter 4
Handbook of Research on Smart Territories and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Sustainable Growth
The idea of the smart territory makes the smart city concept from the urban scale to the regional scale and deploying these policies in an integrated and holistic manner.
Published in Chapter:
Social Innovation as a New Social Policy Tool for Regional Government Institutions in Smart Territories
Muradiye Ates (Haci Bayram Veli University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2097-0.ch004
Abstract
By aiming at improving social welfare and well-being, social policies, social innovation, and smart territories are closely related to each other. Local authorities are in direct contact with citizens and regional needs, which makes them an important actor in overcoming challenges ranging from housing, spare-time activities to education to improving democratic standards. There are many successful examples of social innovations, including FixMyStreet.com, participatory budgeting, and Open Government Vienna, which are supported by local governments that can contribute to the formation of smart cities and territories. By elaborating related examples from various perspectives, this chapter highlights the relation between social policy, social innovation, and smart cities.
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