Green and digital entrepreneurship in smart cities

This paper investigates the relationship between implementation of smart city initiatives and number new firms, paying special attention to rates green digital entrepreneurship as cities tend follow sustainable and/or orientations. We find evidence a positive (causal) relation in sample Belgian municipalities, particularly when these bottom-up approach level is high. In contrast, having orientations does not generally make any difference entrepreneurship, exception being large municipalities. These results suggest that may be acting local entrepreneurship-supporting policy. They also support view are mainly (but only) associated with technological developments (in cities).