期刊名称：European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2235-767X
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：9
页码：84-99
出版社：European Society of Business and Social Sciences
摘要：egional performance currently seems to depend not only onthe city’s combination of hard infrastructure (physicalcapital), but also on the availability and quality ofknowledge and social infrastructure (human and social capital),according to the recent concept of the “smart region”.The present paper aims to shed light on whether Italian regions can becalled “smart”. It provides a focused and operational definition of thisconcept and presents consistent evidence on the geography of smartregions in Italy. The statistical and graphical analyses, based on a nonlinearclustering with Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) neural networks,were carried out in order to analyse the factors determining theperformance of smart regions between 2009-2013.This study found that only regions of northern Italy could be defined as“smart” according to the selected “smartness” performance indicators.This result prompts the formulation of a new strategic agenda forsmart regions in Italy.
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