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.
Highlights
In the present day, globalization processes, a high level of innovation, and high levels of investment expenditure have caused fast socioeconomic development in most world economies
The number of entrepreneurs in total active on a Local government (LG) territory grew if predictors of bottom-up initiatives such as organizing events at the national or regional scale that enable networking among entrepreneurs and establishing a department for supporting local entrepreneurship open to cooperation with local entrepreneurs were met
Our analysis revealed that bottom-up initiatives undertaken by LGs to support entrepreneurship such as organizing events at the national or regional scale that enable networking among entrepreneurs and establishing departments for supporting local entrepreneurship open to cooperation with local entrepreneurs correspond with the number of entrepreneurs in total active in LG territories, a measure which increased if the above-mentioned predictors of bottom-up initiatives were met
Summary
Globalization processes, a high level of innovation, and high levels of investment expenditure have caused fast socioeconomic development in most world economies. These processes have an impact on the development of new lifestyles and consumption styles which have contributed to the establishment of the renewable energy sector, which is currently one of the fastest developing branches of the global economy [1]. Policymakers responsible for supporting entrepreneurs rely on current and updated measurements of entrepreneurship and system approach towards more holistic activities. They are focused on developing connections through network structures, building new institutional capabilities, and producing benefits from synergies between different stakeholders [6,7]. The research findings published in [16] indicated that policy makers need to understand the role of public sector institutions in the creation of local entrepreneurship, as this role can extend into innovative leadership in governance of enterprises and entrepreneurship at the local and regional tiers
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