Journal of Applied Economic Research
ISSN 2712-7435
Entrepreneurial City in the Russian Economic Reality: the Identification Problem
Baskakova I.V., Suldina О.V.
Abstract
The subject of research is the entrepreneurial city. The aim of the work is to study the economic phenomenon of "entrepreneurial city" and substantiate the criteria for its identification in relation to the realities of the modern Russian economy. The first part of the article analyzes the evolution of the concept in the works of foreign and Russian authors. The authors note that in the Western tradition, the entrepreneurial city is characterized by the availability of an innovative strategy and a functional institutional structure the main task of which is to create conditions for maximum attraction of mobile financial, industrial and consumer flows. As the main characteristics of the entrepreneurial city, Western authors highlight the existence of large-scale projects based on public-private partnerships for the promotion of the territory. The peculiarity of such projects is that the risks accompanying them, can be covered with the use of public resources, and the effects from their implementation can spread to a larger territory than the city itself. It is shown that in the Russian economic thought the concept of urban entrepreneurship, marketing tools and branding of cities is used to find independent ways of improving the economic situation at the municipal level, and also to encourage federal authorities to reduce the centralization of power. In the second part of the paper, the authors proposed quantitative parameters that allow one to identify entrepreneurial cities in the Russian economic space. These parameters include the level of economic diversity and services; availability of human capital; the level of the state of the urban environment and living conditions. Each of them was evaluated on the basis of several indicators, making it possible to determine the level of economic diversity and the degree of development of the service sector, the development of human capital, the quality of the urban environment and living conditions.
Keywords
Entrepreneurial City; Spatial Economics; Urban Economics; City Marketing; Revanchist City; Quantitative Parameters; Economic activity in space.
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Acknowledgements
About Authors
Baskakova Irina Vladimirovna - Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Theory and Economic Policy, Institute “Graduate School of Economics and Management”, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620002, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19); e-mail: ibaskakova@rambler.ru.
Suldina Оlga Vladimirovna – Master of Economics, Marketer of CJSC “Scientific Production Joint-Stock Company “ECHO”, Moscow, Russia (121099, Moscow, Smolenskaya sq., 3); e-mail: olgasuld@gmail.com.
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Baskakova I.V., Suldina O.V. Entrepreneurial City in the Russian Economics Reality: the Identification Problem. Bulletin of Ural Federal University. Series Economics and Management, 2017, Vol. 16, No. 4, 597-622. DOI: 10.15826/vestnik.2017.16.4.029.
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Received July 01, 2017; Accepted July 19, 2017.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2017.16.4.029
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