Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds: An Entrepreneurial Local Government Perspective

Abstract

Abstract This article explores some of the underlying forces that provoke local governments to participate in multi-level governance through the creation of networks at the local as well as European level. We focus on the European funding process within local governments to identify some differences in the process between the Italian and the English local government authorities. Subsequently we observe that entrepreneurship theory could assist in untangling and explaining this phenomenon; therefore we explore the EU funding process from an entrepreneurship angle.