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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL POLICY
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 743-755Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2017.1374382
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China; digital entrepreneurship; clusters; mass innovation; Hangzhou
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In this paper, we chart the development of creative cities from urban clusters through to 'characteristic towns', the latter typology reflecting a government desire to build distinctive cultural brands. We illustrate how this recent development iteration has played out in Hangzhou and its relationship to Internet+, a policy blueprint introduced by the Chinese government in March 2015 which underpins ambitions to make China an innovative nation. The term 'entrepreneurial solutionism' describes a proclivity to see digital technology as a solution to China's social and economic problems, and a way to enhance the realisation of the 'Chinese Dream' of national rejuvenation. Central to the Internet + blueprint is the slogan 'mass entrepreneurship, mass innovation', suggesting elements of the kind of Silicon Valley style neoliberalism, often celebrated in start-up cultures. While it has become fashionable to append the term neoliberalism to China's developments, we argue that China's reversion to hard authoritarianism under Xi Jinping renders this description problematic.
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