This paper explores the co-production of urban entrepreneurialism by examining the work of
civil society groups in producing mobile models of slum entrepreneurialism. While slums …

The entrepreneurial city is no longer (only) a growth machine: recession and austerity, new
forms of financialization, and diverse experiments in urban policy have diluted local elites' …

In this commentary, while I acknowledge the value of differentiating varieties of urban
entrepreneurialism by focusing on different forms and geographies of innovation in public …

Recent accounts of urban political change have been seemingly preoccupied with
demonstrating the existence of a transition from managerial to entrepreneurial forms of …

We revisit the concept of urban entrepreneurialism to highlight some of its variety. In
particular, the present article refocuses discussion on: processes of innovation, bringing …

Over the last two decades, urban geographers have been seemingly preoccupied with
theorizing the apparent transformation of western cities. Particular attention has been …

During the last two decades, local public sector entrepreneurship has been propagated as
the panacea for cities seeking to adapt to massive national and international economic and …

While participatory processes in urban development are meant to increase citizen influence,
decades of experimentation have led to mixed results. In this article we answer two inter …

Efforts in US cities to support the emergence of the “maker economy” could take urban-level
industrial policy in a new direction. Optimistic projections about the potential of the maker …

This paper investigates two trends in contemporary forms of urban entrepreneurialism:(a) an
increasing focus on cultivating entrepreneurship, and (b) the promotion of entrepreneurial …