Using ideas from natural ecology to better understand entrepreneurship as complex systems, this book offers a different research approach to explain how entrepreneurship operates within specific regional contexts. The book aims to:
- show how ecological thinking offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurial ecosystems.
- demonstrate how this approach differs from traditional entrepreneurship research.
- provide practical guidelines for researchers and policymakers working in regional entrepreneurship.
It concludes that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach—similar to how ecologists study natural environments—is essential to grasp the dynamic entrepreneurial relationships between people, institutions, organizations, natural resources and attributes in regional economies. The book introduces a new paradigm for studying entrepreneurship that emphasizes interconnectedness and system-level change.
Advancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, economic geography and entrepreneurship. Policymakers, practitioners and consultants in entrepreneurship and organizational systems seeking evidence-based techniques to inform their work will also greatly benefit from the insights in this book.
Using ideas from natural ecology to better understand entrepreneurship as complex systems, this book offers a different research approach to explain how entrepreneurship operates within specific regional contexts.
Arvustused
Regional development is increasingly recognised as an ecological phenomenon, though understanding it has remained elusive. OConnor and colleagues significantly advance the agenda by untangling these complexities both theoretically and empirically. It forges an entrepreneurship ecology that allows those from the worlds of both regional development and entrepreneurship to collide productively. -- Robert Huggins, Cardiff University, UK As a geographer, I welcome the publication of this edited volume on regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. By highlighting the geographic challenges including questions of scale, time, but also inquiring critically about the metaphor ecology and novel methodologies the authors address critical questions in entrepreneurial ecosystem research that may help us understand and shape socioeconomic developments at a local and regional level. -- Heike Mayer, University of Bern, Switzerland
Contents
Foreword to Advancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research xi
David B. Audretsch
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
PART I ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH
OF REGIONALLY DEFINED CONTEXTS
1 Why do we need entrepreneurial ecosystem research? 2
Allan OConnor
2 Divergences and challenges in entrepreneurial ecosystem
research development 19
Allan OConnor
3 Adopting an ecosystem ecology approach to regional
entrepreneurial ecosystems 41
Allan OConnor
4 The ecological foundations of regional entrepreneurial
ecosystems research 59
Allan OConnor
PART II CURRENT THEORY AND METHOD PRACTICES
IN REGIONALLY DEFINED ENTREPRENEURIAL
ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH
5 Power and influence as contributors to entrepreneurial
ecosystem effectiveness 83
Stephen B. Adams
6 Modelling inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem: game
theory approach 103
Hojjat Shakiba
7 Entrepreneurial ecosystems connections across space:
financial flows as migratory elements 124
Bruno Brandão Fischer and Susann Schäfer
8 Skills ecosystem as a strategy to tackle STEM talent
shortages in a region: the case of Biscay 144
Sofia Zhukova, Juan P. Gamboa and Edurne Magro
9 Planning the wild ecologies of entrepreneurship
assemblages of innovation districts 166
Kathryn Anderson
10 Configuring innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem
conditions for success: integrated QCANCA insights into
optimal and sustainable outcomes 186
Kevin K. Chan
PART III GUIDELINES FOR REGIONAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOLOGY RESEARCH
11 Putting the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem analysis to work 209
Victoria Brendah Nakku and Allan OConnor
12 Researching ecosystem dynamics: system dynamics and
agent-based modelling as tools for entrepreneurial ecosystem
research 219
Bernd Wurth, Bob Walrave, Georges Romme and Erik Stam
13 Framing the future of regional entrepreneurship ecology
research 242
Allan OConnor
Edited by Allan OConnor, Professor of Enterprise Dynamics, College of Business and Law, Adelaide University, Australia
