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作者

Lara Penco;Enrico Ivaldi;Carolina Bruzzi;Enrico Musso

来源

CITIES,Vol.96,Issue1,Article 102443

语言

英文

关键字

Entrepreneurship;Knowledge economy;Urban environment;Knowledge city;Key factors

作者单位

Department of Economics (DIEC) and Italian Centre of Excellence in logistics, transport and infrastructure (CIELI), University of Genoa, Via Vivaldi 5, 16126 Genoa, Italy.;Department of Political Sciences (DISPO), Piazzale E. Brignole, 16125, Genoa, Italy and Italian Centre of Excellence in logistics, transport and infrastructure (CIELI), University of Genoa, Via Vivaldi 5, 16126 Genoa, Italy.;Department of Economics (DIEC) and Italian Centre of Excellence in logistics, transport and infrastructure (CIELI), University of Genoa, Via Vivaldi 5, 16126 Genoa, Italy.;Department of Political Sciences (DISPO), Piazzale E. Brignole, 16125, Genoa, Italy and Italian Centre of Excellence in logistics, transport and infrastructure (CIELI), University of Genoa, Via Vivaldi 5, 16126 Genoa, Italy.

摘要

This paper aims to answer the following research question: does the knowledge city environment stimulate entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we develop a framework and multidimensional indexes to better explain the different dimensions of a ‘knowledge city’ and their relation to urban entrepreneurship, defined in terms of new and digital ventures. The analysis was performed on a sample of 60 cities, including all capital cities in the EU28 and 32 non-capital cities in the EU that are considered important knowledge hubs. The presence of cities from EU28 countries is important to foster the entrepreneurship attitude in each national context. Our study makes a significant contribution to the literature by providing a new approach to understand the factors affecting knowledge cities and to identify the city profiles that are key for the development of urban-level entrepreneurship, thus providing a number of important insights for academics and urban policy makers.