A synthesized framework for the formation of startups’ innovation ecosystem

Abstract

<jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title> <jats:p>The introduced frammework can be useful in identifying and understanding the requirements of startups and creating effective policies for their innovation development.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: challenges among Iranian startups

“…The Iranian startup ecosystem has grown in terms of both quality and quantity in the past decade (Ojaghi, Mohammadi, and Yazdani 2019). The enterprising communities and the entire startup ecosystem have taken several steps and became more mature during this period (Yalcintas and Alizadeh 2020).…”

Characterizing and Distinguishing ‘Innovative Start-ups’ Among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)

“…The conceptual relationships between Start-ups and MSMEs should be understood since these entrepreneurial ventures are known for creating wealth and accelerating the economic growth of their nations (Ojaghi et al, 2019). Yet, they are known to have a very high rate of failure (Kuester et al, 2018).…”

“…Start-ups have been studied by many researchers across different countries and in different business and market contexts because of the very high potential economic and social value they hold for those countries and contexts (Hillemane et al, 2019; Ojaghi et al, 2019; Pugliese et al, 2016; Tripathi, Seppanen et al, 2018). Yet, there are no accepted definitions of Start-ups (Bortolini et al, 2018; Spender et al, 2017; Zaech & Baldegger, 2017).…”

“…Several LRs papers on MSME/SME are considering Start-ups to be a part of MSMEs (Demartini & Beretta, 2019; Hossain & Kauranen, 2016; Nolan & Garavan, 2016). However, few papers on Start-ups highlight that Start-ups and MSMEs are different types of firms (Ojaghi et al, 2019; Pahnke & Welter, 2019).…”

“…A review of literature on specific aspects of Start-ups, such as Innovation (Spender et al, 2017), Start-up ecosystem (Ojaghi et al, 2019), Lean Start-up methodologies (Silva et al, 2020), growth of Start-ups (Pugliese et al, 2016), and Dynamic Capacities of Start-ups (Hanchi & Kerzazi, 2020), has provided us with a comprehensive view on Start-ups. Interestingly, all these LR papers have addressed these Start-ups by different names (see Table 1).…”