Scientific Journal SPATIAL ECONOMICS - Smart City Ecosystem: Assessment of the Sustainability

In the section	Review, Discussion, Criticism
Title of the article	Smart City Ecosystem: Assessment of the Sustainability
Pages	160-172
Author	Evgeny Vasilievich Popov Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Center for Socio-economic investigations Institute of Economics Ural Branch of RAS 29 Moskovskay St., Ekaterinburg, 620014, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-5513-5020
Abstract	This paper is concerned with studying the problems of smart city ecosystem functioning. The work considers the influence on ecosystem sustainability of external and internal influences on infrastructural, network, digital, institutional, resource elements of a smart city. The author proposes the principles of assessing the sustainability of a smart city ecosystem (infrastructural saturation, the level of development of network connections and digital technologies, the absence of failures of the institutional environment, minimization of transaction costs), implemented through the indicators of the number of stakeholders, the use of network and digital potential of the municipality, the level of institutional saturation, determined by the method of building an institutional atlas, the level of comparative transaction costs, determined by the construction of transaction functions. The author also proposes possible directions of further research in terms of expanding the theoretical and instrumental base of research
Code	338.342.44
JEL	L26, M21, M11
DOI	https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.3.160-172
Keywords	ecosystems, smart cities, sustainability, infrastructure, networks, digital technologies, institutions, transaction costs
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For citation	Popov E.V. Smart Сity Ecosystem: Assessment of the Sustainability. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 160–172. https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.3.160-172 (In Russian)
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Financing	This research was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation under the research project No. 22-28-00439 ‘Institutional Configuration of Sustainable Development of Smart City’
Submitted	02.02.2023
Approved after reviewing	18.07.2023
Accepted for publication	28.08.2023
Available online	02.10.2023