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The Making of the Urban Entrepreneur
Munoz, Pablo , and Boyd Cohen
59/1  (Fall 2016): 71-91

Pressures on infrastructure- due to growing urban populations, the ubiquity of new technologies, and collaborative business models- are fostering a new form of entrepreneurship focused on addressing quality of life in cities. Urban entrepreneurs are challenging the logic of formal market structures, forcing us to reframe our thinking around the interactions between place, individuals, institutions, and the resulting innovative outcomes. Urban entrepreneurs- operating at the neighborhood, city, and global levels- are developing alternative forms of private-public-people partnerships and unique business strategies.

 

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