Governance Models and Outcomes to Foster Public Value Creation in Smart Cities

Abstract

The growth of smart cities is forcing governments to focus their efforts on the increase of public value creation. Based on a literature review of prior research and on a questionnaire about the perception of city practitioners in European smart cities included in the EUROCITIES network, this paper seeks to analyze the public value creation under the context of the smart cities, examining the model of citizen participation, the responsibility of smart city development and the outcomes to be achieved in smart cities. Results indicate that public value creation surpass the capacities, capabilities, and reaches of their traditional institutions and their classical processes of governing, and therefore new and innovative forms of governance are needed to meet it. This way, the creation of public value under the context of the smart cities is based on smart urban collaboration, which promotes the use of new technologies to adopt a more participative model of governance.