Developing a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem in Regional Australia

Haines, Troy

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“…Regional employment opportunities through innovation are critical. Some of the success stories include the Ideas Lab in Cairns (formerly the Cairns Innovation Centre)-a self-sustaining start-up and innovation ecosystem in Far North Queensland [67]-and Australian Tropical Sciences and Innovation Precinct-a world class tropical research hub located in Townsville [68]. Nonetheless, both projects are public/academic sector investments, and there is only a negligible level of private sector driven large investments in regional Australia-excluding mining and agricultural operations.…”

Section: Offering Broadband Access Innovation and The Digital Economy Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities

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The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of rapid urbanization, particularly around capital cities, has been questioned, and alternative growth models and locations have been the subjects of countless discussions. This is particularly the case for the Australian context: The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the debates in urban circles on post-pandemic urban growth strategies and boosting the growth of towns and cities across regional Australia is a popular alternative strategy. While some scholars argue that regional Australia poses an invaluable opportunity for post-pandemic growth by ‘taking off the pressure from the capital cities’; others warn us about the risks of growing regional towns and cities without carefully designed national, regional, and local planning, design, and development strategies. Superimposing planning and development policies meant for metropolitan cities could simply result in transferring the ills of capital cities to regions and exacerbate unsustainable development and heightened socioeconomic inequalities. This opinion piece, by keeping both of these perspectives in mind, explores approaches to regional community and economic development of Australia’s towns and cities, along with identifying sustainable urban growth locations in the post-pandemic era. It also offers new insights that could help re-shape the policy debate on regional growth and development.

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Section: Offering Broadband Access Innovation and The Digital Economy Conditionsmentioning

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Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities

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“…To connect the entrepreneurship stimulating forces in EEs, EE leaders engage in several activities, such as pursuing initiatives to build the ecosystem, developing the ecosystem's social network, and promoting a shared vision among EE participants (Markley et al, ; Spigel, ). In general, leaders operate as ecosystem “champions”—catalysts who intensify interest and activity in an ecosystem and work with the EE's stakeholders to promote the ecosystem's health and sustainability (Haines, ; Roundy, ). Ecosystem leaders are described as entrepreneurial enablers (Isenberg, ) because they are often driven by a form of servant leadership (Eva, Robin, Sendjaya, van Dierendonck, & Liden, ) focused on putting other ecosystem participants first, assisting them in their entrepreneurial efforts, and improving the regional community (Miles & Morrison, ).…”

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Do we Lead Together? Leadership Behavioral Integration and Coordination in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Roundy

2020

J of Leadership Studies

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems are the systems of forces that encourage and sustain entrepreneurship in geographic areas. Vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems exhibit coordination—participants engage in explicit attempts to organize, develop, and promote the ecosystem. Coordination involves ecosystem leaders; however, there is not a theory explaining the linkages between ecosystem leadership and coordination. To understand how ecosystem leaders promote coordination, the current paper proposes a model of entrepreneurial ecosystem behavioral integration. It is theorized that entrepreneurial ecosystem behavioral integration is influenced by leader and leadership‐group characteristics and, in turn, influences an ecosystem's cognitive, social, and cultural coordination. The model contributes to research at the intersection of leadership and entrepreneurship by delineating a precise and theoretically grounded conception of the connections between ecosystem leadership and coordination. A more nuanced understanding of coordination is provided by identifying its mechanisms and sub‐dimensions. The proposed theory charts a path for interdisciplinary research on leadership and entrepreneurial ecosystems and identifies practical implications for ecosystem leaders.

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“…However, rural EEs are often not vibrant because they lack coordination in the efforts of ecosystem participants to promote and support their ecosystems. This lack of coordination is partly a result of the absence of ecosystem "champions," individuals and organizations that explicitly draw attention to and seek to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem (Haines, 2016). In uncoordinated EEs, entrepreneurial activities may occur but there is not a clearly identified entrepreneurship community comprised of individuals engaging in deliberate attempts to stimulate and sustain entrepreneurship.…”

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Place-Based Advantages in Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Coordination Reduces Transaction Costs

Roundy

Fayard

2020

Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management

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Academics and practitioners are increasingly lauding the economic and community benefits of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the interrelated forces that promote and support entrepreneurship in geographic areas. Most researchers examining entrepreneurial ecosystems have sought to identify their core attributes rather than isolating the concrete mechanisms by which entrepreneurial ecosystems influence entrepreneurs. We address this omission in ecosystems research by theorizing about a specific set of economic forces through which ecosystems influence the entrepreneurship process: cost-reduction mechanisms. We integrate and extend insights from transaction cost economics and develop a framework for understanding the costreducing effects of ecosystems on entrepreneurial activities. We synthesize the fragmented research on entrepreneurial ecosystem coordination and theorize that as coordination increases three types of costssearch, negotiation, and enforcementdecrease, which improves ecosystem participants' ability to engage in entrepreneurship. Our theorizing contributes to research at the management and entrepreneurship interface and produces actionable insights for entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders.

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Developing a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem in Regional Australia

Cited by 34 publications

References 3 publications

Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities

Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities

Do we Lead Together? Leadership Behavioral Integration and Coordination in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Place-Based Advantages in Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Coordination Reduces Transaction Costs

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