What is an Entrepreneurial City?
It might be argued that entrepreneurial cities have existed for centuries, if not millenia, and, in terms of institutional structures and strategies supporting economic innovation, this could well be true (e.g., Hall 1998; Braudel 1984; Jacobs 1984; Taylor 1995). But this argument views cities as engines of wealth creation regardless of the specific form in which this occurs and so fails to capture what is novel about the role of entrepreneurial cities in capital accumulation. (5) The literature on urban growth machines does combine a focus on wealth creation with interest in the dynamics of property capital and in this regard has some similarities with our own approach. But urban growth machine studies have been more concerned with local developmental strategies and the political alliances that support them than with issues of interscalar articulation and they have also examined a restricted range of the entrepreneurial strategies that we identify below. In addition our own approach h
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