The present book provides a concise overview of relevant studies in the fieldof financing sustainable development in communities, innovation and public privatepartnership, with special stress on analogy between smart cities and smartmunicipalities. The research generated till now the most the complete and entirerepository of data connected to project financing in municipalities, the number andcompetences of clerks, innovation and public private partnership in Slovenianmunicipalities in years 2005 till 2012. It scopes one quarter of municipalities and onefifth of Slovenian population. In total of 200 hypotheses were tested for significance ofnumber or shares of projects with different ways of financing with influential factorssuch as region, the number of clerks, the number of competent and high educatedclerks, municipal experiences with public private partnership, cooperation betweenmunicipalities and experiences with innovation. The hypotheses were tested for eachyear. Effects of selected factors in the period often vary from year to year. We haveexplained the possible causes for the difference in power factor.

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