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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254330803321

Titolo

Entrepreneurial Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : Cities Striving Towards an Era of Rebirth and Revival / / edited by Piero Formica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52660-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXV, 156 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, , 2197-5698

Disciplina

658.421

Soggetti

Small business

Knowledge management

Management

Industrial management

Urban economics

Small Business

Knowledge Management

Innovation/Technology Management

Urban Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Editor's Note -- Foreword by Martin Curley -- Foreword by Alan Barrell -- Ch 1 Scope of Renaissance -- Ch 2 Harbouring the City of Sydney's Fluid Renaissance -- Ch 3 Bangalore: Development through Intercultural Interaction -- Ch 4 Tel Aviv: A Renaissance Revival in the Making -- Ch 5 From Self-Made Entrepreneurs to the Sharing Economy: Milan as a Laboratory for a New Collaborative-Based Approach -- Ch 6 Knowledge City Stockholm at Forefront -- Ch 7 Bournemouth: Urban Beach Not Urban Jungle -- Ch 8 Dublin's and Ireland's Entrepreneurial Revolution -- Ch 9 San Francisco Renaissance: Yet Another Gold Rush?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance. The first Renaissance, conceived and developed in an urban environment, with the Medici family in Florence as pioneers, was



a melting pot of art, culture, science and technology. It is in that context that entrepreneurship derived from artisan tradition and, hence, customized, was born to meet the demands and anticipate the needs of individual consumers. Starting with the mechanical technologies of the first industrial revolution, art, culture and science became separated from entrepreneurship. The latter took on Fordist features which depersonalized and, therefore, standardized the producer-consumer relationship. The emerging model of entrepreneurship returns to its origins in customization (e.g., 3D printing technologies, sharing/on-demand economy) strongly linked to the sequence "art-culture-science-technology." The road to a new entrepreneurial renaissance is traveled by cities with creative communities. These communities actively participate in promoting international talent mobility, encouraging connections among the knowledge nomads who move around the world and the resources and talents rooted locally. Brought back to life under the conditions of the current age, entrepreneurship is once again woven into the fabric of art, culture, science and technology, and contributing to civic identity and pride. Featuring case studies from local experts that highlight innovative initiatives and developments in diverse cities around the world, this book aims to stimulate deep thought, theories and applications in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. .