Entrepreneurial City

Abstract

Abstract This entry defines the entrepreneurial city, considers its past and present significance, and comments on its relation to recent shifts in the dynamic of capital accumulation on a world scale. Drawing on the work of Joseph Schumpeter, it suggests five kinds of strategy that can be pursued by an entrepreneurial city; it relates these to changing discourses of competitiveness and entrepreneurialism; and it considers the conditions in which a city can be treated as an entrepreneurial agent. Also discussed are the limits of urban entrepreneurial strategies, their effects on social exclusion, and the treadmill effect of constant interurban competition.

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