@misc{9248915,
  abstract     = {{This thesis compares the entrepreneurial contexts of Lund, Sweden, and Toronto, Canada to examine whether Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a non-profit accelerator founded in Toronto, would fit within Lund's ecosystem. Two research questions are addressed: what similarities and differences exist between the entrepreneurial contexts of Lund and Toronto, and how a CDL site would mesh with Lund's entrepreneurial context.
A literature review of national culture, entrepreneurial ecosystems and startup support organizations (SSOs) was conducted to construct a framework covering points related to pro-entrepreneurship cultural dimensions, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and SSOs. This framework was then used to structure a case study built on 22 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders across the two locations.
Lund and Toronto were found to share high risk aversion, ongoing brain drain, strong spaces for collaboration, high number of SSOs, strong support for early stages of startups and challenges in providing scale-up formats. The two locations differ in their policies for incentivizing risk-taking, attitudes toward change, friction between academia and entrepreneurial actors, which funnels are used to generate talent, the role of the universities, generating synergies across fragmented ecosystem sectors, matching the entrepreneurial activity with the number of SSOs, amount of entrepreneurial recycling and challenges regarding how the universities handle IP. Building on these findings, the analysis concludes that CDL would complement Lund’s existing SSOs, primarily by offering coaching and a faster, more demanding program. Specifically, an advanced materials stream, connected to Industrial Engineering and Management at LTH and building on momentum from MAX IV and the European Spallation Source, is recommended as the strongest fit, with university buy-in identified as the biggest remaining barrier.}},
  author       = {{Hedlund, August}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Creating Creative Destruction}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}