Until recently, entrepreneurship and neighbourhood studies were separate academic disciplines which rarely interacted with each other. However, recent macroeconomic and societal trends have pointed the spotlight on the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities, highlighting not only the importance of ‘the local’ in entrepreneurship but also the huge gaps in our knowledge base regarding this tripartite relationship. To date, most research on entrepreneurship, firm formation and innovation, compares entrepreneurial activities, ambitions and policies between countries, or investigates entrepreneurship in a regional context (see e.g. Buckingham et al., 2012; Fritsch and Storey, 2014), largely ignoring the ‘local’. Despite the growing evidence on the importance of the neighbourhood, entrepreneurship studies have rarely ‘scaled down’ to cities and neighbourhoods including the residential context of where entrepreneurs live. This missing local and social perspective which brings in the social context.