ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on entrepreneurship at a municipal level. The concept of municipal-community entrepreneurship has been developed to capture both this aspect of entrepreneurship and the wider partnerships, especially the public-private partnerships involved. The chapter provides a contextual backdrop to the development of the concept of municipal-community entrepreneurship by examining the broader issue of the rise of 'entrepreneurial government' at the local level in many municipalities, cities and regions. The example incorporates the international sister-cities movement into the concept of municipal-community entrepreneurship. A further illustration of municipal-community entrepreneurship in action is drawn from the university where the authors are employed. Massey University's Albany Campus 'e-centre' was opened in March 2001. The chapter offers an example of the concept of municipal-community entrepreneurship in action, drawn from the development strategies set in place by Waitakere City and its economic development agency, Enterprise Waitakere. Municipal-community entrepreneurship, while not solely an urban phenomenon, is nevertheless most clearly evident in cities.
