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SMART AND SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 19-38Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-03-2020-0017
Keywords
Urban entrepreneurship; Networks; Sustainability; Indicators; Cities
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- National Funds of the FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [UIDB/04007/2020]
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This study measures sustainable urban entrepreneurship using a composite of existing indicators and identifies key indicators that mediate sustainable urban entrepreneurship. Sustainable urban entrepreneurship is an essential tool for solving urban problems and promoting urban regeneration by combining creative economy. This research fills a gap in existing studies on urban entrepreneurship.
Purpose Urban sustainability is an inseparable dimension of today's cities; thus, the role played by creativity, and consequently sustainable urban entrepreneurship and the networks it raises, gives rise to the pro-activity of these two constructs toward a tripartition (economic, social and environmental). This study aims to measure sustainable urban entrepreneurship through a composite of existing indicators in the literature of cities. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors followed a quantitative research by applying exploratory factor analysis. The sample contains 308 towns and cities in Portugal, and the data were collected using secondary databases (e.g. INE; PORDATA). Findings Through quantitative research, this study identified the key indicators that mediate sustainable urban entrepreneurship in cities, as a methodological tool for them to evaluate their sustainable entrepreneurial capacity. Practical implications The results obtained here provide information to show that sustainable urban entrepreneurship is an essential construct for cities, allowing a solution to many of their urban problems by its association with creative economy and its influence on the revitalization of urban spaces by urban regeneration, and by the importance of networks in these, the latter being another fundamental construct. Originality/value This research makes important contributions to studies considering the sustainability construct in urban entrepreneurship area. It will help to fill part of the gap in existing studies involving the cities' aspects in entrepreneurship field. Consequently, the main contribution of this study lies in identifying the indicators that contribute to cities' tripartite sustainable balance by assuming sustainable urban entrepreneurship as a crucial premise.
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