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<p>Due to today’s great societal challenges, such as climate change, demographic boom, resource scarcity, urban settlements find themselves trained in a tense race of reforming their urban development strategies. Turning cities into smart settlements, by improving their waste management and energy consumption seems like the only viable solution for a prosperous and sustainable future. Moreover, statistics show that smart cities create an auspicious environment for the establishment of start-up, as they provide incentives for citizens with creative and entrepreneurial skills. Accordingly, the objective of the current study is twofold: in the first instance, we would like to prove the existence of a causal link between the level of smart orientation in a city and the spread of start-ups, namely, the smarter the city, the bigger the number of start-ups, and vice versa by choosing as our case study, a city from the North-Western development region of Romania, Oradea; secondly, we stress, that the promotion of a collaborative governance model by the city leadership, involving all the stakeholders in the decision-making process enables smart orientation within a city.</p>
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Due to today’s great societal challenges, such as climate change, demographic boom, resource scarcity, urban settlements find themselves trained in a tense race of reforming their urban development strategies. Turning cities into smart settlements, by improving their waste management and energy consumption seems like the only viable solution for a prosperous and sustainable future. Moreover, statistics show that smart cities create an auspicious environment for the establishment of start-up, as they provide incentives for citizens with creative and entrepreneurial skills. Accordingly, the objective of the current study is twofold: in the first instance, we would like to prove the existence of a causal link between the level of smart orientation in a city and the spread of start-ups, namely, the smarter the city, the bigger the number of start-ups, and vice versa by choosing as our case study, a city from the North-Western development region of Romania, Oradea; secondly, we stress, that the promotion of a collaborative governance model by the city leadership, involving all the stakeholders in the decision-making process enables smart orientation within a city.

Collaborative Governance for Smart and Sustainable Cities of the 21st Century. Case Study: The City of Oradea

PhD. Assistant Professor at the University of Oradea

European Studies

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Due to today’s great societal challenges, such as climate change, demographic boom, resource scarcity, urban settlements find themselves trained in a tense...

Collaborative Governance for Smart and Sustainable Cities of the 21st Century. Case Study: The City of Oradea

Published Online: Apr 19, 2023

Page range: 205 - 221

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0073

Keywords
collaborative governance, e-governance, Oradea, smart city, start-up

© 2021 Edina Lilla Mészáros, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Collaborative Governance for Smart and Sustainable Cities of the 21st Century. Case Study: The City of Oradea

Published Online: Apr 19, 2023

Page range: 205 - 221

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0073

Keywordscollaborative governance, e-governance, Oradea, smart city, start-up

© 2021 Edina Lilla Mészáros, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
collaborative governance, e-governance, Oradea, smart city, start-up