Essays about: "Entrepreneurial City"

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1. 11. The unicorn factory : Examining Stockholm tech-startups and their pursuit of internationalization

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF)

   Author : Georg Lövström; Hampus Olofsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Internationalization; Entrepreneurship; Start-ups; Network; Relationships; Stockholm; innovation; Business-ecosystem.;

   Abstract : The idea behind this thesis was born from the success of the so-called unicorn companies originating from Stockholm. Unicorn companies are highly successful tech-startups which reached an evaluation of 1 billion USD while remaining private companies. READ MORE

3. 12. (Re)Articulating Sexual Citizenship: Between Queering the Urban Space and Subjugating the Queer

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Onur Kiliç; [2018]
   Keywords : politics of space; globalisation; sexuality; sexual citizenship; discourse theory; consumerism; homonormativity; post-industrial city; entrepreneurial city; creative class; post-structuralism; neoliberalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In today’s post-industrial cities, how urban citizenship is defined and performed have been ambiguously positioned in their relationship with the urban societal space. While the cities become more commodified and privatized with the inter-urban competition, the concept of citizenship is put into a tentative position between being participatory political subjects and passive consumers. READ MORE

4. 13. Growing on (Un)common Ground: Motivations and Locational Choice of Urban Agriculture Entrepreneurs

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Kerstin Schreiber; [2018]
   Keywords : urban agriculture; commercial urban farming; location-based entrepreneurship; ecopreneurship; grounded theory; motivation;

   Abstract : Urban agriculture in post-industrial countries is commonly represented in form of shared community gardens or individual gardening lots. However, within the last years, an increasing number of commercial urban farming enterprises around the globe have started their operations. READ MORE

5. 14. Hub Criativo do Beato- For whom by whom? : A narrative study of global entrepreneurial and creative urban practices in the eastern riverside of Lisbon

   University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

   Author : Solveig Lönnervall; Michaela Sundell; [2018]
   Keywords : Creative economy; globalisation; neoliberalism; place marketing; public-private partnership; urban regeneration; industrial heritage; urban managerialism;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the phenomenon of creative hubs in former industrial sites based upon the case study of Hub Criativo do Beato and its process of implementation in Lisbon, Portugal. The hub is explored in relation to political-cultural power embedded in the practice of globalism and public-private partnership. READ MORE

6. 15. Challenging the Place Experiment: A critical take on the experiment as an urban planning strategy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Sif Juhl Jacobsen; [2018]
   Keywords : experiment; strategic urban planning; critical urban theory; Copenhagen; Neighborhood Regeneration; entrepreneurialism; governance; disadvantaged urban neighborhoods; re-politicization.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite a recent interest among geographers and planners in experiments in and on the city, urban experimentation has yet to be examined critically. This thesis takes on the challenge by conceptualizing the place experiment as hermeneutical, transformative, co-creational and geographically bounded, and further by examining the strategic use of place experiments in municipal urban planning. READ MORE