Developing an Entrepreneurial City Measurement Framework with Emphasis on Creative City Components

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Document Type : Science - Research

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1 Ph.D Candidate, Department of Urban Planning, Qa.C. Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Qa.C., Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

10.30473/grup.2025.74662.2933

Abstract

Rapid technological changes and international competition, the expansion of new urban challenges in the economic, social and managerial aspects of cities, have increased the focus on entrepreneurial cities in recent years worldwide. In the meantime, creative cities can play an important role in the formation of entrepreneurial cities by creating a stimulating environment for innovation and creativity. A review of research conducted by numerous researchers indicates that the lack of a comprehensive and coherent framework for measuring the potential of cities to enable them to form as an entrepreneurial city in connection with the components a creative city. For this purpose, this research aims to develop a measurement and evaluation framework to study the degree of compliance of cities with the components and indicators of the entrepreneurial city in relation to creative cities; therefore, in this research, based on the library method and text mining tool, the components of entrepreneurial and creative cities were explained and through the interconnection between them, the categories and components of the entrepreneurial city in relation to the creative city were identified and in the next step, using the indexing method, these categories and components were converted into examineable indicators and a measurable framework was proposed for them. The final output of this research has led to the development of a frameworkmeasuring (components and indicators) the entrepreneurial city in relation to the creative city in four categories: creativity and socio-cultural coexistence, economic diversity and dynamism, creative and sustainable business environment, and creative multi-level governance.

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Journal of Urban Ecology Researches

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 16 September 2025

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  • Receive Date: 22 February 2025
  • Revise Date: 15 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 16 September 2025

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