Widening the borders of entrepreneurial ecosystem through the international lens

Theodoraki, Christina; Catanzaro, Alexis

doi:10.1007/s10961-021-09852-7

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“…Third, the power perspective highlights boundaries of influence. Recently, interest has risen in regional studies, including entrepreneurial ecosystems (Theodoraki & Catanzaro, 2021 ) and cities (Audretsch et al, 2019 ) that shape entrepreneurship. Existing studies suggest, depending on the wider cultural context, different tolerances for power inequalities within ecosystems or cities exist (Audretsch & Fiedler, 2021 ), as well as different tolerances exist for power inequalities between actors such as entrepreneurs and states (Tsai, 2005 ).…”

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Power and entrepreneurship

Audretsch

Fiedler

2022

Small Bus Econ

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Entrepreneurship research has benefited from embracing three economic sociology lenses—networks, cognition, and institutions—but has treated power mainly implicitly. This paper pioneers how the concept of power can advance research into entrepreneurship. We illustrate how state actors, legacy firms, and entrepreneurs variously exert coercive, persuasive, and authoritative forms of power over entrepreneurial opportunities or exercise power to pursue them as free actors. We explicitly link context and opportunity-development processes through a power lens and show how power’s interaction-focused and episodic nature that can transcend geographical and institutional boundaries might enrich entrepreneurship research.

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Power and entrepreneurship

Audretsch

Fiedler

2022

Small Bus Econ

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“…Malecki’s (2018: 6) review of the concept highlighted no less than 14 ‘selected definitions’ of the concept to demonstrate the variations in definitions offered. This ambiguity is an ongoing problem, and it has become almost a necessary caveat of recent papers to declare that ‘there is not yet a shared definition’ (Rocha and Audretsch, 2022: 10), to outline how the ‘entrepreneurship literature generally defines the entrepreneurial ecosystem’ (Theodoraki and Catanzaro, 2022: 384, emphasis added ), before offering their own particular definition.…”

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Harris,

Menzel

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is now one of the most popular policy tools for regional development following a surge of interest in entrepreneurship-oriented academic circles, yet has experienced little critical engagement within economic geography discourse. We argue that economic geographers should engage with the entrepreneurial ecosystem concept because (1) it describes a shift in spatial socio-economic organisation that has thus far been underexplored by economic geographers and (2) it is an inherently chaotic concept that requires significant conceptual development, not least in relation to the cluster concept. The entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is considered a close relative and potential successor of the cluster concept, which itself rapidly achieved policy stardom despite academic concerns over its conceptual clarity. We argue that there are significant similarities and intersections between the two concepts with implications for broader regional development literatures, enabling economic geographers to enrich academic debates and consequent policy decisions.

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“…According to Theodoraki and Catanzaro (2021), the current literature on EEs can be categorised using five axes, namely (1) structural, (2) systemic, (3) evolutionary, (4) spatial and (5) international. Financial access and "smart capital" is considered one of the most crucial building blocks of entrepreneurship (Cassar, 2004;Politis, 2008), but the literature has yet to produce knowledge on the financial dynamics in entrepreneurial ecosystems.…”

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Financial Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Regions of Norway

Frimanslund

2022

JGBC

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Based on the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) perspective, this paper examines the role of finance and interrelated value-adding activities in ecosystems. The study employs a multiple-case design and interviews with 11 rural and urban innovative start-ups and stakeholders in the Norwegian market for entrepreneurial financing. The analysis disentangles the term recycling of entrepreneurial resources in ecosystems, explained here as a self-enhancing cycle of finance under certain conditions that allows enhancement of the ecosystem and members. The aim is to explain these mechanisms in business-level ecosystems, why they are important, and how they are new to entrepreneurship theories. The study argues that the robustness of ecosystems is characterised by the extent of such activities and how they affect entrepreneurial and regional growth. Bottom-up ecosystems can be spatially scattered and enable start-ups in disadvantageous localities to harvest critical resources from more advantageous places. This study provides a theoretical extension of EEs.

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Widening the borders of entrepreneurial ecosystem through the international lens

Cited by 42 publications

References 65 publications

Power and entrepreneurship

Power and entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Financial Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Regions of Norway

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