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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366633303321

Titolo

Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship / / edited by Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar, Jonathan B. Justice, David B. Audretsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-15164-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Collana

The Urban Book Series, , 2365-757X

Disciplina

307.1416

352.793

Soggetti

Urban geography

Entrepreneurship

Municipal government

Economics - Sociological aspects

Education and state

Management

Industrial management

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Urban Politics

Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

Education Policy

Innovation/Technology Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Demography -- Incentives -- Urban Design -- Education -- Collaborative Governance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level. The book aims to connect scholarship and policy practice in two disciplines: Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship. The book has included contributions from developed, emerging, and developing countries. The chapters are clubbed under five main sections; I. Startups and Entrepreneurial Opportunities, II. Knowledge Spillover, III. Social and Bureaucratic



Entrepreneurialism, IV. Demography and Informal Entrepreneurs V. Perspectives from Emerging and Developing Economies. In this regard, the book explores a number of questions, such as: what are the important varieties of entrepreneurship, how can they be observed and measured, and how does each variety emerge and operate under various conditions of infrastructure and opportunity? Which type(s) of entrepreneurship should a city prefer? What can cities do to stimulate desirable forms of entrepreneurship or is it more of a spontaneous phenomenon? Why do policies that enhance entrepreneurship in some contexts seem instead to promote crony capitalism and rent-seeking in other contexts? Should cities focus on growing their own entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial enterprises or on luring them from other cities and countries? How can a collective action in a city promote (or hinder) entrepreneurship? The contributions in the present volume address head-on these questions at the intersection of urban studies, economic theory, and the practicalities of economic development and urban governance, in a genuinely global range of places and applications.