Cultural Aspect of Developing an Environment Supportive of Innovation in Smart Cities

Environments that foster innovation have so far mainly been examined at a company's, higher education institution's and country's level and unit of analyse. Given the global competition for talent and the emergence of smart cities as environments that facilitate and develop innovation, it is important to look at how the dimension of research on smart cities can contribute to the existing debate. Creating the right environment for work and other activities to attract and develop talent requires a much broader view than can be pro-vided by a single company, a more extensive environment with various perspectives needs to be covered and supported. The perspectives to be covered must include, alongside com-pany culture and motivational aspects, the wider environmen-tal aspects concerning sustainability, sociality and economic efficiency. Sustainability, sociality and economic efficiency encompass cultural aspects as well as economic ones. This pa-per looks at the subculture of smart cities and places it in the broader environment of smart cities, including the cultural urban governance of such cities.