Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development
研究中国武汉城市圈案例，提出“创业尺度技艺”框架，分析多尺度国家行为体如何通过股权重组和资产化参与区域生态转型，并加剧尺度矛盾引发社会抗议。
Abstract This paper examines how multi-scalar state actors are integrated in a regionalised ecological transition, and how this process, in turn, exacerbates scalar contradictions within state strategies. Drawing on a case study of the Wuhan City Circle in Hubei Province, China, it proposes a framework of entrepreneurial scalecraft to theorise the mission-oriented scalar experimentation and inherent crisis tendencies of state entrepreneurialism. This framework comprises two coexisting and intersecting spatial–institutional processes: (i) shareholding of multi-scalar states, referring to the strategic integration of state actors at different levels through equity (re-)structuring, and (ii) cross-scalar state assetisation, referring to the rise of state power at new scales of governance through selective asset grabbing. However, these scalar innovations also exacerbate internal tensions within multi-scalar states, ultimately giving rise to unintended consequences such as social protest.