Bottom-Up Initiatives Undertaken by Local Governments to Support Entrepreneurship

Niki Derlukiewicz, Anna Mempel-Śnieżyk, Tomasz Pilewicz and Małgorzata Godlewska
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Niki Derlukiewicz: Department of Macroeconomics, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, 53-345 Wroclaw, Poland
Anna Mempel-Śnieżyk: Department of Spatial Economy and Local Government Administration, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, 54-345 Wroclaw, Poland
Tomasz Pilewicz: Business Environment Unit, Institute of Enterprise, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
Małgorzata Godlewska: Department of Administrative and Corporate Finance Law, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-19

Abstract: The present paper deals with issues related to activities undertaken by local government. The article focuses on the identification and assessment of the significance of local government’s different bottom-up initiatives that support development of local entrepreneurship. The article also indirectly discusses the importance of activities referring to energy efficiency. Through the digitization process and by using digital tools, LGs realize projects, improve local actors’ awareness, and finally achieve new challenges such as a higher proportion of gross final energy consumption being from renewable sources. The aim of the paper is to present the relationship between the LGs’ entrepreneurial activities, which we call bottom-up initiatives, and the local entrepreneurship level, understood as the number of entrepreneurs active on the territory of a LG. This paper presents the results of research carried out on the bottom-up initiatives undertaken by Polish local governments to support entrepreneurship. The research was based on survey and statistical tools and stepwise regression analysis. In the paper, bottom-up initiatives undertaken by local governments (such as organizing events at the national or regional scale that enable networking among entrepreneurs or establishing departments for supporting local entrepreneurship that offer cooperation with local entrepreneurs) were found to influence the number of entrepreneurs active in local government territories. The paper concludes that local governments and their bottom-up activities are an important factor influencing local entrepreneurship development. The presented research results have implications for policy makers and may be useful for local governments in Poland and in other countries in the context of supporting entrepreneurship by undertaking bottom-up initiatives at the local level.

Keywords: local government; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial activity; bottom-up initiatives; sustainable development; renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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