Articles with Enterpreneur tag
The Top 10 Things That Define an Urban Entrepreneur
The term “urban entrepreneur” has two principal connotations: someone who starts with no resources and builds a company or brand into a success; and someone who uses the perfect blend of book and street smarts to run their business well. To help me determine the true characteristics of today’s urban entrepreneur, though, I decided to [...]
Making sense of urban entrepreneurialism
David Harvey’s 1989 article, ‘From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation of urban governance’, has very quickly become a ‘citation classic’. This article provides a brief summary of Harvey’s argument focusing on the distinguishing characteristics of urban entrepreneurialism, the strategies undertaken by governing coalitions and the importance of inter‐urban competition to the entrepreneurial thesis.
