Entrepreneurship and urban regeneration policy have traditionally been treated as separate fields. This volume is one of the first to focus explicitly on the links between the two, examining how policy can help regenerate inner cities and other areas of urban distress.

Entrepreneurship and urban regeneration policy have traditionally been treated as separate fields. This volume focuses on the links between the two, examining how policy can help regenerate inner cities and other areas of urban distress by stimulating entrepreneurship. It sets out recent policy developments in North American and European cities in financing entrepreneurship, providing advice, training and mentoring to entrepreneurs, using special zones and area-based policies to grow new and small firms, and supporting social enterprises.--Publisher's description.

This publication is based on the proceedings of a conference, held in Rome, 7-8 October 2003, entitled Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Distressed Urban Areas. It brings together a number of papers linking entrepreneurship and urban regeneration, and how the two can combine in developing urban renewal, as well as setting out policy developments in North American and European cities. Divided into five parts, including: entrepreneurship financing in distressed urban areas; entrepreneurship advice, training and mentoring for urban renewal; social enterprise and urban rebuilding; area-based policies and entrepreneurship, and the fostering of entrepreneurship and economic development. The final chapter sets out future policy directions. The publication should be of interest to policymakers, academics and those concerned with urban regeneration and poverty reduction within inner cities, as well as developing entrepreneurship to enhance economic vitality.

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This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and discusses how they should develop this role in the future.

This book presents and analyses interesting recent developments in the field of community capacity building, in a variety of OECD and non-OECD countries. The focus is on how CCB has effected change in three major areas: social policy, local economic policy and environmental policy.