Abstract
Research background: The global rating methods of smart cities rankings used in such international organizations as The Intelligent Community Forum, Center for Globalization and Strategy IESE and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. International ratings are considered to be a source of information that allows everyone to see and evaluate the scale of it. Along with this phenomenon, the Russian Federation develops national smart cities IQ index which creates the case in rating methodology to help researches assess and better understand smart cities revolution. Purpose of the article: Major international rankings of smart cities arise alongside one national rating through the prism of the following methodological objects: comparison criteria, scope and structure of the study, research goals and priorities, obtaining information methods, number of criteria, range of estimated values, frequency of ranking compilation and compilers. All mentioned comes up with the basics of global metarating and possibility of its creation. Methods: As for the main research methods, we turned to analysis and developed our own criteria in comparison, synthesis of metarating and approaches to the study of smart cities development. Findings & Value added: As a result of the study, the main criteria of the considered rating assessment methods and the basis of metarating were identified. Based on the study, substantiated conclusions are formulated, and scientifically based recommendations are given to provide the basis for further metarating creation and elaboration.
Highlights
In the context of the formation of an innovative economy and the technological landscape of the modern world order, which are based on the principles of 4.0 industry, there is an inevitable change of emphasis and paradigms associated with the need for further development of models for organizing urban economy and managing the life processes of cities in the near future
The performed comparative analysis of smart city ratings was based on seven features used as comparison criteria
The "IQ of cities" methodology is comparable to each of the considered rating methods used by foreign international organizations to study the implementation of the smart cities concept
Summary
In the context of the formation of an innovative economy and the technological landscape of the modern world order, which are based on the principles of 4.0 industry, there is an inevitable change of emphasis and paradigms associated with the need for further development of models for organizing urban economy and managing the life processes of cities in the near future. In this regard, approaches related to the results of scientific and technical achievements of recent decades are becoming promising areas for building a modern society. The problems under consideration are caused by trends in the development of the theoretical and regulatory framework for implementing the concept of smart cities, which are accompanied by the lack of the necessary mechanism for interaction between responsibility centers at the level of city administrations of Russian regions, that leads to a low degree of practical implementation of the concepts under study
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