Contemporary Concepts of City Development – Wrocław as a Place of Creation of Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Abstract

The challenges of modern cities are widely discussed and related to both sustainable development, environmental problems, international cooperation and others. The aim of the article was to assess the endogenous potentials of Wrocław against the background of selected largest Polish cities for the formation of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Its implementation was supported by literature studies on contemporary concepts of urban development, the concept of the entrepreneurship ecosystem and the assessment of relationships between the studied potentials of Polish cities and the analyzed indicators of entrepreneurship in cities. In addition, attention was paid to the diversity in the definition and geographical coverage of entrepreneurship ecosystems globally. The results of the research confirm that in Polish conditions, cities with their potentials, especially infrastructural and human capital, are the basis for the formation of local entrepreneurship ecosystems. The article focuses in particular on the analysis of Wrocław, which, according to the latest Startup Poland report, is at the forefront of the Polish startup environment.