diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/index.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/index.ts
index 2ea1eb6f53..2b1664abe2 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/index.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export * from './apis';
 export * from './components';
 export * from './hooks';
 export * from './filters';
+export type { EntityRouteParamsOptions } from './routes';
 export { entityRouteParams, entityRouteRef } from './routes';
 export * from './types';
 export * from './overridableComponents';
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.test.ts
index 2b172ae201..6299c0bdba 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.test.ts
@@ -77,4 +77,27 @@ describe('entityRouteParams', () => {
       expect(actualRouteParams).toEqual(expectedRouteParams);
     },
   );
+
+  it('should not encode route params by default', () => {
+    const actualRouteParams = entityRouteParams(
+      'Custom Entity:Test Namespace/Test Component',
+    );
+    expect(actualRouteParams).toEqual({
+      kind: 'custom entity',
+      name: 'Test Component',
+      namespace: 'test namespace',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should encode route params', () => {
+    const actualRouteParams = entityRouteParams(
+      'Custom Entity:Test Namespace/Test Component',
+      { encodeParams: true },
+    );
+    expect(actualRouteParams).toEqual({
+      kind: 'custom%20entity',
+      name: 'Test%20Component',
+      namespace: 'test%20namespace',
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.ts
index 13421fafef..34b9437691 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/routes.ts
@@ -42,12 +42,21 @@ export const entityRouteRef = getOrCreateGlobalSingleton(
     }),
 );
 
+/**
+ * Configurable options for `entityRouteParams`
+ * @public
+ */
+export type EntityRouteParamsOptions = {
+  encodeParams?: boolean;
+};
+
 /**
  * Utility function to get suitable route params for entityRoute, given an
  * @public
  */
 export function entityRouteParams(
   entityOrRef: Entity | CompoundEntityRef | string,
+  options?: EntityRouteParamsOptions,
 ) {
   let kind;
   let namespace;
@@ -71,6 +80,13 @@ export function entityRouteParams(
   kind = kind.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US');
   namespace = namespace?.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US') ?? DEFAULT_NAMESPACE;
 
+  const { encodeParams = false } = options || {};
+  if (encodeParams) {
+    kind = encodeURIComponent(kind);
+    namespace = encodeURIComponent(namespace);
+    name = encodeURIComponent(name);
+  }
+
   return {
     kind,
     namespace,