ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates emerging cosmopolitanism in Kyiv, Ukraine. It highlights diversity in Kyiv’s population and the city’s entrepreneurial environment and shows the scope and effectiveness of entrepreneurship support programmes. It also explains why foreign entrepreneurs are attracted to Kyiv and how the local authorities approach the city’s growing global orientation. In this open city, its governing bodies do not make any special effort to support businesses of foreign citizens. Rather, the city’s government focuses on developing priority industries via entrepreneurship. The growth of foreign businesses in Kyiv is an underregulated process that lacks purposely set incentives. It depends on business environment that seems to be more attractive than the one in many European or Middle Eastern countries. Many foreigners come to Kyiv looking for comfortable living conditions and broad opportunities to do business, and their contribution forms a valuable input to the city’s growing cosmopolitanism. Kyiv is on the way to deeper cosmopolitanism. Nonetheless, the scope and effectiveness of entrepreneurship support infrastructure in Kyiv have to be increased to ensure broader reach of diverse populations.
