“…The research on EEs has grown quickly in recent years (Acs et al., 2018; Godley et al., 2019; Nordling et al., 2020; Qian et al., 2013; Spigel, 2017). High importance has been attributed to the concept as it contributes toward helping scholars to think systemically when considering entrepreneurship activity across various sectoral, institutional, and local contexts (Partridge et al., 2019; Tsvetkova et al., 2019). Cities and regions have become an important unit of analysis for EEs research with different economic agents operating within its boundaries (Audretsch & Belitski, 2017; Malecki, 2012, 2018; Stam, 2018).…”