Forewords / Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano -- Introduction / Gilberto Antonelli and Giancarlo Campri -- Conceptualizing the idea of smart development -- Smart specialization -- Issues and challenges for smart specialisation / Riccardo Leoncini -- Smart specialization and models of capitalism / Luca Cattani and Giovanni Guidetti -- Smart specialization and supply side outcomes in an industrial policy perspective / Patrizio Bianchi and Silvano Bertini -- Smart city -- Issues and challenges for smart cities / Nicola De Liso and Luca Zamparini -- Human capital and new geography of jobs / Luca Cattani, Giovanni Guidetti and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart cities, social goods and demand side outcomes in a regional policy perspective / Gilberto Antonelli -- Smart development -- Smart development, local production systems and related variety / Gilberto Antonelli and Riccardo Leoncini -- Smart development as a criss-crossed outcome of smart specialization and smart city strategies / Gilberto Antonelli -- Measuring and applying smart local development -- Smartness indicators in the European urban framework / Dorel Nicolae Manitiu and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart development and smart utilities : an international comparison / Andrea Paliani, Giuseppe Cappiello and Gianluca Di Pasquale -- Smart development in regional economies : the specificities of soutern italy in the european frame / Cosimo Casilli, Valentino Moretto and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart development in regional economies. the emilia-romagna region in the european frame / Silvano Bertini -- Smart development in regional economies : the lombardy region in the european frame / Armando De Crinito, Marco Baccan, Alina Candu, Enza Cristofaro and Giuseppe Cappiello -- Governing smart local development -- Government and governance for smart development in smart communities / Gilberto Antonelli and Nicola De Liso -- Smartness and collective learning processes : the enabling roles of the public utilities / Alessandro Camilleri and Marco Ruffino -- Urban mobility in a smart development perspective / Luca Zamparini -- Conclusion / Stefano Venier -- Appendix -- Author index -- Subject index