Nurturing Innovation Through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What Does the Literature Say?

Marshall, Sevara Esther; Caputo, Andrea; Mehtap, Salime

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19685-1_14

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“…Entrepreneurship and environment are reciprocally related-entrepreneurs navigate, modify, and make better use of their environment over time (Marshall et al, 2019). Within entrepreneurial cognition literature, a primary purpose of developing cognitive models, especially processoriented models, is to illustrate the dynamic interactions between environment, entrepreneur, and action (De Winnaar and Scholtz, 2019).…”

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On the cognitive microfoundations of effectual design: the Situated Function–Behavior–Structure framework

Emami

Packard

Welsh

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to extend effectuation theory at the front end by building cognitive foundations for the effectual design process.Design/methodology/approachWe adopt an integrative conceptual approach drawing on design cognition theory to explain entrepreneurial cognition.FindingsWe find a significant gap in the entrepreneurial cognition literature with respect to effectuation processes. We thus integrate the Situated Function–Behavior–Structure framework from design theory to elaborate on the cognitive processes of effectuation, specifically with regard to the opportunity development process. This framework describes the cognitive subprocesses by which entrepreneurs means and ends are cyclically (re)formulated over time until a viable “opportunity” emerges, and the venture is formalized, or else, the entrepreneur abandons the venture and exits.”Practical implicationsUnravelling this entrepreneurial design process may facilitate more appropriate and effective design work by entrepreneurs, leading to more successful product designs. It also should facilitate the development of better design techniques and instruction.Originality/valueThis research contributes to new cognitive foundations for effectuation theory and entrepreneurial process research. It better explains how means are transformed into valuable goods over time through an iterative reconsideration of means-ends frameworks. This theoretical elaboration will expectedly facilitate additional research into the iterative cognitive processes of design and enable more formulaic design thinking.

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Section: Situatedness Within An Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%