Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems

By E. Malecki. 2018

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This paper reviews the literature, concepts, and operationalizations of the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Despite some interest at the national level, entrepreneurship is understood to take place in localitiesor, atmost,regions, drawingon localresources,institutions, and networks. Bibliometric evidence shows that usage of the term entrepreneurial ecosystem has overtaken other concepts, such as environments for entrepreneurship, which also highlight the mecha-nisms, institutions, networks, and cultures that support entrepreneurs. This review addresses several specific topics: the choice of scale, universities as ecosystem hubs, and how such ecosystems evolve. This is followed by suggestions toward an agenda for future research, placing particular attention on methodologies.

Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Citations in the corpus

• The relevance of quantity and quality entrepreneurship for regional performance: the moderating role of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (2018, background): “While most conceptual approaches view the entrepreneurial environment as a bundle of different components, EE adopts a multi-context perspective that highlights the self-reinforcing forces, interdependencies, supporting effects, and forward and backward linkages among components (Cooke, 2016; Maleck”
• A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial ecosystems in advanced and emerging economies (2020, background): “Although the term entrepreneurial ecosystems emerged only in the 2000s (Malecki 2018), we went back to 1970 because similar concepts such as entrepreneurial systems were used earlier.”
• Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway (2021, background): “Rather, the evolutionary processes of adaptation and mutation induce the diversity and heterogeneity that facilitates the sustainability and perpetuity of an ecosystem (Malecki, 2018; Roundy, 2017).”
• An effectual leadership perspective for developing rural entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “There is no consensus on one definition of entrepreneurial ecosystems that offers a consistent set of objectives, the scale of analysis, attributes, actors, or processes (Malecki 2018).”
• Fostering digital entrepreneurship from startup to scaleup: The role of venture capital funds and angel groups (2019, background): “Entrepreneurial agency, which had historically been considered a matter of individual-opportunity nexus (Shane and Eckhardt, 2003), is now embracing a broader perspective, to reach a systemic or eco-systemic view (Malecki, 2018; Cavallo et al., 2018b).”
• Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements (2019, background): “And third, it is not clear what is the appropriate level of analysis of an entrepreneurial ecosystem (Malecki 2018).”
• The age of digital entrepreneurship (2019, background): “The DEE literature aims at providing an overarching and systemic view of how digital technologies are creating new types of entrepreneurial ecosystems (Malecki 2018).”