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Payman Mehrnezhad Boura, Mohammad Taghi Pirnia, Yaser Shahbazi, Volume 13, Issue 1 (7-2024)
Abstract
Innovative technologies aligned with social innovation have the potential to enhance urban infrastructure. This research aims to assess the smartness of Tabriz city from the perspective of social innovation. By integrating smartness and social innovation, this study has extracted dimensions, criteria, and indicators of social innovation's smartness. These six dimensions include smart governance, smart living, smart economy, smart transportation, smart citizens, and smart environment. The Tabriz metropolis, has been selected as this case study. Results indicate that Tabriz's smartness is below average, with the smart environment scoring the lowest and smart living scoring the highest among the dimensions. To provide effective recommendations, the SOAR model has been defined and ranked by experts, identifying key strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. Using the quantitative assessments questionnaires, and the SOAR model have led to five strategies: extensive citizen engagement, transformation of smart urban infrastructure and services, green economy, improvement of quality of life and equitable access, and integrated, efficient urban management based on the social innovation approach. By implementing these strategies and establishing appropriate relationships among stakeholders, the smart city of Tabriz is realized through social innovation.
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