A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems research : towards a future research agenda
(2017) In European Planning Studies 25(6). p.887-903- Abstract
The entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) literature has attracted much attention, especially in policy circles. However, the concept suffers from a number of shortcomings: (1) it lacks a clear analytical framework that makes explicit what is cause and what is effect in an EE; (2) while being a systemic concept, the EE has not yet fully exploited insights from network theory, and it is not always clear in what way the proposed elements are connected in an EE; (3) it remains a challenge what institutions (and at what spatial scale) impact on the structure and performance of EE; (4) studies have often focused on the EE in single regions or clusters, but lack a comparative and multi-scalar perspective and (5) the EE literature tends to provide a... (More)
The entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) literature has attracted much attention, especially in policy circles. However, the concept suffers from a number of shortcomings: (1) it lacks a clear analytical framework that makes explicit what is cause and what is effect in an EE; (2) while being a systemic concept, the EE has not yet fully exploited insights from network theory, and it is not always clear in what way the proposed elements are connected in an EE; (3) it remains a challenge what institutions (and at what spatial scale) impact on the structure and performance of EE; (4) studies have often focused on the EE in single regions or clusters, but lack a comparative and multi-scalar perspective and (5) the EE literature tends to provide a static framework taking a snapshot of EE without considering systematically their evolution over time. For each of these shortcomings, we make a number of suggestions to take up in future research on EE.
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- Alvedalen, Janna and Boschma, Ron LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-06-03
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- clusters, Entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurial system, entrepreneurship, networks
- in
- European Planning Studies
- volume
- 25
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 887 - 903
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85015706449
- wos:000399346300001
- ISSN
- 0965-4313
- DOI
- 10.1080/09654313.2017.1299694
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 7f07651d-32e1-4d27-acc7-17e8a72cf7ec
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- 2017-04-05 14:07:34
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