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Sustainable Development of Entrepreneurship and the Cities: A Knowledge-Based Perspective

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 10903

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Dear Colleagues,

Following the traditional economic and managerial literature, the determinants and effects of entrepreneurship on economic development must be interpreted from a national or regional perspective. Recent political and academic issues on entrepreneurship highlight the need to focus the aforementioned topics on a city level. Literature has stated that knowledge cities are the most capable of producing sustainable economic growth. Cities, where relationships between people are more extensive, provide the natural environment in which knowledge spillovers, emphasized by the endogenous growth theory, can easily spread.

This Special Issue wants to stimulate ample debate on the role of cities in promoting the sustainable development of entrepreneurship, a topic presently under-investigated, particularly at a European level. Specific topics may include historical, theoretical, and/or empirical papers that present cutting-edge research on sustainable development in a broad knowledge-based perspective at the micro and macro level.

The papers selected will be subject to a double-blind peer-review procedure, with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Enrico Ivaldi
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • entrepreneurship
  • knowledge economy
  • urban environment
  • knowledge city
  • key factors
  • multidimensional indexes

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A Partially Non-Compensatory Method to Measure the Smart and Sustainable Level of Italian Municipalities
by Andrea Ciacci, Enrico Ivaldi and Reyes González-Relaño
Sustainability 2021, 13(1), 435; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010435 - 05 Jan 2021
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A smart sustainable city (SSC) is a paradigm that encapsulates the latest lines of development in multiple fields of research. The attempt to converge towards a model of sustainable urban life, made difficult by increasing anthropic pressure and polluting activities conducted by man, [...] Read more.
A smart sustainable city (SSC) is a paradigm that encapsulates the latest lines of development in multiple fields of research. The attempt to converge towards a model of sustainable urban life, made difficult by increasing anthropic pressure and polluting activities conducted by man, is also reflected in the intentions of public institutions to take measures of environmental risk mitigation. The change towards more liveable cities must also include the adoption of more far-reaching measures in various sectors. The objective of our work was to provide an analysis in order to assess which of the Italian provincial municipalities were most closely related to the paradigm of SSCs. This aim was pursued through a comparison based on the results of a partially non-compensatory quantitative method, known as the Pena’s Distance method (DP2). The smartest and most sustainable cities, such as Siena, Milan and Padua, were not identified on the basis of common urban characteristics but rather derived from the combination of distinctive and functional elements in the pursuit of a strategic approach aimed at fully exploiting the resources of each area. Moreover, at a macro-geographical level, from the analysis emerged the presence of contiguous clusters, i.e., areas in which a major concentration of smart sustainable municipalities tended to form. Full article
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New Opportunities for Cruise Tourism: The Case of Italian Historic Towns
by Stefania Mangano and Gian Marco Ugolini
Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4616; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114616 - 05 Jun 2020
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The cruise industry has grown worldwide in the last decades and, today, it is often associated with high levels of pollution and overtourism. This is especially true of areas where tourism cruises are a long-established sector, such as the Mediterranean and Italy in [...] Read more.
The cruise industry has grown worldwide in the last decades and, today, it is often associated with high levels of pollution and overtourism. This is especially true of areas where tourism cruises are a long-established sector, such as the Mediterranean and Italy in particular, where there is growing concern of the consequences of excessive pressure on popular tourist destinations. To reduce such side effects, it is necessary to develop new and sustainable tourism management policies. Our study explores the potential of the diversification of shore excursions offered by cruise lines to relieve pressure on popular destinations. As a case study, we focus on a subset of Italian villages that have received quality certifications (Bandiere arancioni and/or Borghi più belli d’Italia) because of their artistic, historical, cultural, and aesthetic values. Thanks to their proximity to major Italian ports, these villages offer opportunities for shore excursions alternative to some classic and very popular destinations such as Rome, Venice, Pisa, and Florence. The benefits of shore excursions to peripheral destinations are particularly relevant when visits include overnights. Full article
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Developing Sustainable Urbanization Index: Case of China
by Lina Zhong, Xiaonan Li, Rob Law and Sunny Sun
Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4585; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114585 - 04 Jun 2020
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Urbanization in China is considered an important force for global sustainable development. In particular, China’s urbanization is of great significance to achieve the Millennium Goals of the UN. Hence, an in-depth understanding of China’s urbanization sustainable development process and model of sustainable development [...] Read more.
Urbanization in China is considered an important force for global sustainable development. In particular, China’s urbanization is of great significance to achieve the Millennium Goals of the UN. Hence, an in-depth understanding of China’s urbanization sustainable development process and model of sustainable development is urgently needed. As a result, this study examines the sustainable development of urbanization using China as an example through a survey method. Specifically, sustainable development of urbanization is examined from the following five perspectives: economic development, basic public service quality, ecological environment development, urban–rural heterogeneity, and population urbanization. Differences in the sustainable development quality of different urbanization models and regional urbanization were analyzed. Findings showed that the difference in urbanization quality between different models is not obvious, while the difference in urbanization quality between regions is more obvious. Furthermore, the quality of urbanization development in the eastern region is better than that in the central and western regions, and the level of urbanization development with high administrative levels is superior to regions with low administrative levels. Full article
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