A Start-Up Ecosystem as a Structure and Context for High Growth

Sipola, Sakari; Puhakka, Vesa; Mainela, Tuija

doi:10.1108/s1571-502720160000029012

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“…Furthermore, 5 theoretical essays were identified among the selected articles (Brown, Mawson, & Mason, 2017;Buss, 2002;F. M. and A. Coad, 2015;Du & Temouri, 2015;Sipola, Puhakka, & Mainela, 2016).…”

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of the Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, we focused on conducting a bibliographic and theoretical survey in an attempt to link the International Business literature to the scale-up construct, relating phenomena as a possible leverage for high growth in international markets. As a result, five articles published in periodicals with approaches to internationalization were found (Centre, 2012;Cie, Kaciak, & Welsh, 2012;Harms & Schiele, 2012;Sipola et al, 2016). Only one article was found that focused on internationalization for high growth (Nylund et al, 2016).…”

Section: Systematic Review Of the Field Of International Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

2018

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This work analyzed the pertinent literature, identifying possible relationships between the high growth of scale-up enterprises and their internationalization process. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted in the fields of International Business to pinpoint intersections and gaps in the research for empirical exploration and investigation. The results of the analysis are intended to identify possibilities and make theoretical contributions to the field, especially with regard to small and medium-sized ventures. The bibliographic review was conducted using the Google Scholar and Scopus databases. These bases were chosen for their relevance, range and accuracy. Google Scholar is considered the best system for tracing websites and academic PDFs, while Scopus is recognized as the largest scientific database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature. To complement the survey, Scopus metadata analysis resources and NVivo 11 software were used to analyze the content of articles. The findings did not identify a relationship between internationalization and the phenomenon of Scale-ups in the literature in the field of International Business and high growth.

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Section: Qualitative Analysis Of the Resultsmentioning

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Section: Systematic Review Of the Field Of International Businessmentioning

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O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

2018

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“…The under-researched phenomena associated with internationalization within the context of entrepreneurial ecosystems have been identified by conducting an extensive review of the International Business and Strategy literature on firms' internationalization and of the Entrepreneurship and Economic Geography literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems. In addition, the extant literature on industrial districts, clusters and innovation ecosystems was also reviewed as it was seen as linked to the entrepreneurial ecosystems' literature [26]. Moreover, it was also suggested that the findings accrued over several decades of research on these related constructs, if adequately reinterpreted, can be useful in advancing the understanding on how entrepreneurial ecosystems work [9].…”

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“…Moreover, the growing interest in "how to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city" spearheaded by the highly popular and influential book by the same title by Feld [25] drove the commitment to develop entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world on the part of policy-makers as well as of a broad range of other stakeholders. The phenomenon led many governments at the national, state and city level to shift from policies focused primarily on enhancing the competitiveness of large corporations to policies supporting the creation and nurturing of vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems [9], expected to be conducive to the emergence of fast-growing innovative new ventures [26] ultimately enhancing the economic performance of their respective cities, regions and states in terms of job creation and higher prosperity and standard of living [9].…”

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TCKF-Connect: A Cross-Disciplinary Conceptual Framework to Investigate Internationalization within the Context of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Schijndel

2019

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This conceptual paper examines the still under-researched phenomena associated with internationalization within the context of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Drawing on multiple literature streams, I develop TCKF-Connect, a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework to investigate how entrepreneurial ecosystems become globally connected, and how, in turn, an ecosystem’s global connectedness can drive and sustain the internationalization processes of innovative start-ups. I propose a distinction between entrepreneurial ecosystems’ connectivity and ecosystems’ connectedness, where the former is purported as a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve the latter. The framework developed revolves around the role played by a specific “vehicle” of connectivity across entrepreneurial ecosystems, i.e., temporary clusters, as conceptualized by Maskell, Bathelt and Malmberg and focuses on the role of knowledge flows within temporary clusters and across the entrepreneurial ecosystems where the temporary clusters are nested. The cross-disciplinary conceptual framework developed contributes to both research and policy debates by underpinning the investigation of research questions to further our understanding of the interplay between internationalization of entrepreneurial ecosystems and internationalization of the start-ups nested within them. The article proposes a research agenda emanating from the application of the cross-disciplinary conceptual framework developed and suggests a methodology for the empirical investigation.

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“…Cultivation of startups and expansion of their innovation capability depend remarkably on the formation of appropriate context. According to Sipola et al (2016), they have resulted from past collective efforts. Thus, similarly to precious mini organisms, most startups are not alone and can survive and grow in suitable conditions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A synthesized framework for the formation of startups’ innovation ecosystem

Ojaghi

Mohammadi

Yazdani

2019

JSTPM

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Purpose The purpose of this study set out to introduce an alternative framework for explaining the formation of the innovation ecosystem based on the systematic literature review (SLR) and ecosystemic approach. Design/methodology/approach This paper is an SLR of studies from the year 2008-2018 that investigating startups’ innovation. SLR approach being used exploration, interpretation and communication method, which composed of seven steps as follows exploring topics, searching, organizing, evaluating and expanding, integrating and communicating. The output of this process is 63 documents that applied to synthesize the formation framework. Findings The systematic review of literature has shown that researchers in recent years have considered some entities such as incubators, financials suppliers, accelerators, universities and companies in relation to the startup innovations, which are described in this paper as key actors. The study of the relationship between these actors in the documents led to the identification of interactional necessities, including structures, infrastructures and networks. Finally, the processes studied in the literature were classified into three types of mechanisms, namely, the genesis, growth and development of startups innovations. Research limitations/implications The SLR approach is subject to limitations because some poor explanations amongst previous researchers may be repeated and reinforced. Also, in the protocol adopted in this paper, documents are limited in English. Practical implications The introduced frammework can be useful in identifying and understanding the requirements of startups and creating effective policies for their innovation development. Originality/value This paper reviews, summarizes and integrates the growing and scattered literature of the innovation ecosystem of the startups and delivers new facts for the future development of this field.

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A Start-Up Ecosystem as a Structure and Context for High Growth

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

O fenômeno da internacionalização e as empresas scale-up: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura

TCKF-Connect: A Cross-Disciplinary Conceptual Framework to Investigate Internationalization within the Context of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

A synthesized framework for the formation of startups’ innovation ecosystem

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