Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities
研究创业者如何利用城市中的不同场所获取资源，提出“偏好循环”概念，揭示场所使用模式反映创业过程，为地方创新政策设计提供新视角。
Abstract With the aim of fostering innovation, many cities have promoted places to provide resources for entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, little work has been done to determine how these resources are mobilized by entrepreneurs, and how a collection of places in a given city-region can support their efforts. In this article, we argue that entrepreneurs attend different resource-producing places, and that the pattern thus drawn, called preferential circulation, reveals the ongoing entrepreneurial process. Based on network theory, we offer an original concept to better understand how cities can support entrepreneurial dynamics and suggest new insights for local innovation policy design.