Re-imagining the Forest: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development for Finnish Cellulosic Materials

Haarla, Ainomaija; Hakala, Henri; O’Shea, Greg

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71014-3_10

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“…Our analysis of a 3year journey of engaged scholarship within the SCEP suggests that the process of emergence for a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem can be understood as a series of entrepreneurial judgments (Foss and Klein 2017), or phases, that we label as co-intuiting, co-interpreting, and co-integrating. The adopted process view on entrepreneurial ecosystems (Spigel and Harrison 2018) and design science methodology in entrepreneurship (Dimov 2016(Dimov , 2017 allows us to study a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem that existed only as a design artifact, a dream of a more sustainable future in the making (Haarla et al 2018), rather than in the sense of functioning firms or profit-driven activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The SCEP symbolizes all of Cohen's (2006) components of a SEE: (1) an interconnected group of actors, predominantly researchers in arts/design and various technological disciplines, in addition to local large and small companies and the main state organizations; (2) a local geographic community, centered on metropolitan Helsinki; (3) commitment to sustainable development, by developing bio-based, nanocellulose products; (4) the support and facilitation of new sustainable ventures based on a constantly increasing number of patents and startup funding. In the SCEP, the attempt is to transform the regional forest industry into a bioeconomy-helped by a change in emphasis at technical universities, which have started to actively search for new uses and bio-based materials to underpin a new knowledge-intensive and more sustainable ecosystem for wood-based industries (Haarla et al 2018).…”

Section: Empirical Case: Sustainable Cellulose Ecosystem Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The shared sustainability intention lies in the fact that individuals have a common expectation and commit to a joint activity (Bratman 2014). An emotional attachment to the forest can be observed in the location where the project takes place, and the forest has played a key role in that site's history (Haarla et al 2018). Our data analysis shows that the shared sustainable intention has three elements: a quasi-religious belief, a common vision, and multidisciplinarity as a goal.…”

Section: Shared Sustainability Intentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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This paper examines how entrepreneurial opportunities co-evolve within a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem (SEE). Most of the literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems falls short on integrating the entrepreneurial process in empirical research. To analyze data collected from pre-start-up teams within a nascent SEE on high-tech cellulose-based materials over 3 years, we apply a design science approach that helps understand actors' collaborative sensemaking in designing and structuring ecosystem features and relationships. Our findings show that the SEE can be seen as a design artifact which evolves by ecosystem actors collectively engaging in new venture ideation and developing opportunity confidence. Furthermore, the paper presents a novel SEE framework, which elaborates on phases and enablers of the opportunity co-evolution process within an emerging ecosystem. We contribute to the literature on sustainable as well as general entrepreneurial ecosystems and offer a new theoretical foundation for a process view on ecosystems.

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“…Whereas the orchestrator‐centric view perceives ecosystems as something coordinated by a powerful focal or hub actor and directed toward particular goals (often set by the focal actor), the systems‐community view is much more open‐ended and incorporates an important but different role for other actors (Haarla et al, 2018; Hakala et al, 2020). According to this view, value creation, innovation, and entrepreneurial growth are both processes and outcomes of communities of actors concentrated around either a specific geographical region or joint knowledge, technology, or innovation challenges (e.g., van der Borgh et al, 2012; Autio et al, 2018; Järvi et al, 2018).…”

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Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

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For better or worse, digital technologies are reshaping everything, from customer behaviors and expectations to organizational and manufacturing systems, business models, markets, and ultimately society. To understand this overarching transformation, this paper extends the previous literature which has focused mostly on the organizational level by developing a multi-level research agenda for digital transformation (DT). In this regard, we propose an extended definition of DT as "a socioeconomic change across individuals, organizations, ecosystems, and societies that are shaped by the adoption and utilization of digital technologies." We suggest four lenses to interpret the DT phenomenon: individuals (utilizing and adopting digital technologies), organizations (strategizing and coordinating both internal and external transformation), ecosystems (harnessing digital technologies in governance and co-producing value propositions), and geopolitical frameworks (regulating the environments in which individuals and organizations are embedded). Based on these lenses, we build a multi-level research agenda at the intersection between the bright and dark sides of DT and introduce the PIAI framework, which captures a process of perception, interpretation, and action that ultimately leads to possible impact. The PIAI framework identifies a critical research agenda consisting of a non-exhaustive list of topics that can assist researchers to deepen their understanding of the DT phenomenon and provide guidance to managers and policymakers when making strategic decisions that seek to shape and guide the DT.

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“…Within ecosystems, the importance of a connector role is also highlighted (Shane & Cable, 2002). For instance, the use of experienced business people (Mason & Brown, 2014), researchers acting as diplomats, missionaries and knowledge brokers (Haarla et al, 2018), and organisations acting as agents or brokers in the innovation process (Kanda et al, 2018).…”

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Re-imagining the Forest: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development for Finnish Cellulosic Materials

Cited by 3 publications

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The buzz before business: a design science study of a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem

The buzz before business: a design science study of a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem

Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

The circular water economy and the seven Cs

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