ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an institutional framework of urban planning to develop a better understanding of smart cities. It builds on the literature about public management by articulating its role in smart cities. By including urban planning literature, it is suggested that entrepreneurship is needed for smart cities. Institutions are important for facilitating the growth of smart cities but most rely on functioning of government providers. The chapter suggests that research on institutional entrepreneurship is policy based, which can be applied to urban planning for smart cities. The study of smart cities needs to focus towards institutional entrepreneurship due to role structure and processes play in urban planning. More emphasis on the process of institutional entrepreneurship will serve to highlight how the context of smart cities can have implications for development. The renaissance of cities as places for people to live and work has influenced regional innovation policy. New organisational modes in government have been referred to as urban entrepreneurialism.
