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Sixteen Shades of Smart

Book ● Competitiveness
IMD World Competitiveness Center

The Sixteen shades of Smart book offers a set of case studies of smart cities at different stages of development, providing a diverse international basis of experience, with the purpose of enhancing the realism and pertinence of the model underpinning the index to be proposed.

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