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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Health Evaluation of Innovation Ecosystems
in Smart Cities Based on the DEMATEL-TOPSIS
Method Using Wuhan as an Example
1
School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
2
Innovation Demonstration Base of Ecological Environment Geotechnical and Ecological Restoration of Rivers and
Lakes, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
Submission date: 2023-12-26
Final revision date: 2024-02-20
Acceptance date: 2024-03-19
Online publication date: 2024-07-11
Publication date: 2025-01-02
Corresponding author
Xianyu Yu
School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(1):275-286
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The health of urban innovation ecosystems is crucial for smart and modern city construction.
Considering the characteristics and formation mechanism of urban innovation ecosystems, an index
system of health evaluation for smart cities is established. The combined DEMATEL-TOPSIS method
was used to comprehensively evaluate the health of the innovation ecosystem in Wuhan from 2012 to
2020. Moreover, the cause-and-effect relationships among the indicators and the key impact factors are
analyzed. The results show that per capita GDP, the number of users with fixed Internet broadband
access, and road area per capita are the critical factors influencing the health status of urban innovation
ecosystems. The centrality degrees are 1.640, 1.406, and 1.326, respectively, and the causality degrees
are 1.264, 0.934, and 0.808, respectively. Through the analysis of closeness coefficients, it can be
concluded that the health status of the innovation ecosystem in Wuhan is good and steadily increasing.
Finally, policy recommendations for the health development of Wuhan’s innovation ecosystem are
proposed.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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