Emerging urban landscape for innovation & entrepreneurship -- The great urban migration -- Emergence of the civic entrepreneurship space -- The rise of the indie urbanpreneurship space -- Big city enablers -- The great equalizer -- Challenges of and reflections on the future of urbanpreneurship

"Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance...

This book analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors argue that although they are normally conflated, the first...

Die Auseinandersetzung mit künstlerischen Arbeits- und Ausdrucksformen fördert die unternehmerische Innovationsfähigkeit, da zwischen beidem eine innere Verwandtschaft besteht. Dieser These folgt Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, indem sie wirtschaftliche und künstlerische Innovationen der...

Italian manufacturing ¯rms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 abatement costs in the long term. Can such efforts be induced by price instruments? Economists often cite induced technological change as a possible consequence of environmental...

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...