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Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Natalicchio, A., Mora, L., Ardito, L., & Petruzzelli, A. M. (2022). Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities. Regional Studies, 56(9), 1442-1453. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1988551

Discovering regional technological capabilities is key to underpinning the place-based and evidence-driven logic of Smart Specialisation. However, a comprehensive methodological approach for operationalizing the mapping, assessment and benchmarking o... Read More about Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities.

One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia (2021)
Journal Article
Esposito, G., Clement, J., Mora, L., & Crutzen, N. (2021). One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia. Cities, 118, Article 103329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103329

Smart city initiatives are increasingly dominating urban policy scripts worldwide, and their diffusion is centered upon different regional strategies. Adopting the Narrative Policy Framework as methodological basis, this article examines the smart ci... Read More about One Size Does Not Fit All: Framing Smart City Policy Narratives within Regional Socio-Economic Contexts in Brussels and Wallonia.

Not everything is as it seems: digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements (2021)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Kummitha, R. K. R., & Esposito, G. (2021). Not everything is as it seems: digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements. Government Information Quarterly, 38(4), Article 101599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101599

An overly favorable narrative has developed around the role played by digital technologies in containing Covid-19, which oversimplifies the complexity of technology adoption. This narrative takes sociomaterial arrangements for granted and conceptuali... Read More about Not everything is as it seems: digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements.

Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces (2021)
Journal Article
Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Mora, L., Panori, A., & Sefertzi, E. (2022). Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13, 1169-1197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00767-0

Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. H... Read More about Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces.