Many thanks are due to the outstanding group of authors who contributed to a series of sessions that I organized with Mark Davidson, and a panel I organized with Sarah Moser and Diganta Das.

The paper sessions were focused on Revisiting Entrepreneurialism: The Logics of Urban Governance in Systemic Crisis. Authors offered theoretical commentaries on the entrepreneurial city thesis, the idea (originally advanced by David Harvey) that municipal governments respond to national state decentralization and austerity by proactively investing in revenue-generating opportunities (e.g. public-private real estate ventures). Other authors offered analyses of contemporary urban entrepreneurial ventures, exploring the ways in which the entrepreneurial city has diversified into social entrepreneurship, sustainability initiatives, and progressive forms of entrepreneurial governance.

The panel session on The Entrepreneurial City Reconsidered: New Agendas and Diverse Geographies. brought these into conversation with a parallel set of sessions on entrepreneurial cities in the Global South. Panelist explored South-North, and North-South transfers of entrepreneurial policy, the role of entrepreneurial governance in post-neoliberal cities, and the question of whether progressive politics can emerge through entrepreneurial governance (e.g. through social innovation initiatives).