Regional Studies· 2016Q1
The city as innovation machine
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Short summary
Cities and urban regions are essential drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship, not merely containers for these activities.
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Key points
- Cities and urban regions are positioned at the core of innovation and entrepreneurship processes.
- The paper synthesizes Jane Jacobs' urban theories with Schumpeter's innovation and entrepreneurship literature.
- It challenges the view of cities as mere passive 'containers' for innovation, arguing they are active requirements for it.
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Abstract
The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the insights of Jane Jacobs and recent urban research on the role of the city with the literature on innovation and entrepreneurship going back to Joseph Schumpeter. Innovation and entrepreneurship and their geography privileges the firm, industry clusters and/or the individual and poses the city as a container for them. By marrying Jacobs’ insights on cities to those of Schumpeter on innovation, it is argued that innovation and entrepreneurship do not simply take in place in cities but in fact require them.
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