Entrepreneurship in the neighborhood:shifting patterns of economic activities in residential neighborhoods in five dutch cities

Abstract

Cities are oftentimes seen as undergoing a process of "emergence" in the "new economy." However, this process has largely remained empirically underdetermined. This article examines the intra-city geography of emerging businesses in newly dominant sectors of the urban economy. The change in dominant sectors coincides with a shift towards small- and medium-sized businesses, creating new economic opportunities for urban residential areas. The residential neighborhood is introduced as a place where supply and demand side drivers operate to attract or limit such new economic activity. Allen Scott's perspective of the cognitive-cultural economy is used to analyze which neighborhoods are flourishing sites of the cognitive-cultural sectors. His perspective on industries that are on the rise in urban environments and their growth potential proves very valuable. Social demographic characteristics on the level of the neighborhood are used as predictors of the composition of the local economy. The analyses show that in particular wealthy, gentrified neighborhoods are more prone than others to becoming "hubs" of the cognitive-cultural economy. However, disadvantaged neighborhoods may under certain conditions serve as incubators for business start-ups as they offer low-rent office spaces. This has important consequences for their future economic growth potential as well as the distribution of successful businesses in the city.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12065
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Folmer, E. (2014). Entrepreneurship in the neighborhood: shifting patterns of economic activities in residential neighborhoods in five dutch cities. Journal of urban affairs, 36(4), 742–759, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12065. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Urban Studies,Sociology and Political Science
Publication ISSN: 1467-9906
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 08:09
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2015 08:05
Full Text Link: http://onlineli ... .12065/abstract
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2014-10
Published Online Date: 2013-10-30
Authors: Folmer, Emma (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-9597-8057)

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