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IoT-based entrepreneurial city: a new model of urban governance to achieve economic sustainability

Mohammad Eynolghozat (Department of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Babak Ziyae (Department of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Mehran Rezvani (Department of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 21 April 2023

Issue publication date: 15 August 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

One of the challenges of urban management is to provide an entrepreneurial environment for the general population, which can be realized by the development of the entrepreneurial city, which will ultimately cause economic sustainability. In order to create an entrepreneur city, it is necessary to create and develop some infrastructures, one of the most important of which is Internet of things (IoT)-based technological infrastructures, so that municipalities have a leading role. The purpose of this paper is to investigate this phenomenon.

Design/methodology/approach

The research method is a case study type, and a triangulation mixed-method research design has been used for it. For data collection in the quantitative section, questionnaire tools and in the qualitative section, interview tools as well as coding related upstream documents in the municipality were used.

Findings

The findings showed that with the development of the IoT infrastructure, the conditions will be provided for creating an entrepreneurial city and its formation process will be accelerated, so that it will eventually leading to economic sustainability. It was also found that the conditions for the development of urban entrepreneurship based on IoT in the metropolis in question are not favorable. Finally, suggestions were made to improve this situation.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature and economic sustainability by explaining a new concept of an entrepreneurial city and defines the role of IoT infrastructure in its development. Existing literature on the systematic use of IoT in applied fields is still scarce, and this study provides useful insights into it.

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Citation

Eynolghozat, M., Ziyae, B. and Rezvani, M. (2024), "IoT-based entrepreneurial city: a new model of urban governance to achieve economic sustainability", Kybernetes, Vol. 53 No. 9, pp. 2871-2888. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-12-2022-1629

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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