Abstract

This paper discusses forms of investigating the impact that entrepreneurship has in the accumulation of complementary expressions of capital. It focuses in four manifestations of ‘territorial capital’ that can be developed in local spaces: economic, cultural, social and environmental, and identifies research approaches that may be applied to better-informed local policy-making. It bounds the application of these research approaches to local public policies that support the development of micro-entrepreneurs, the role the former may play in building the latter, the contributions these approaches can offer and the limitations they may suffer.
An extension to traditional approaches of discussing decision-making in terms of territorial capital is introduced. This extension considers Kahneman’s systems 1 and 2, and two languages for intervening in the accumulation of territorial capital are introduced: language of needs and language for interactions.