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Reputed authors in the field of territorial economics -- The key concepts of territorial analysis : from the actors to the entrepreneurial ecosystem -- From implementation to evaluations : trajectories and coordination

Este libro arroja luz sobre uno de los mayores problemas de desarrollo de nuestro tiempo: cómo es probable que el auge del espíritu empresarial y la mentalidad asociada se desarrolle en lugares inesperados y cambie la suerte socio-económica y política. Centrándose en la península de los Balcanes, los autores exploran el éxito temprano de los ecosistemas empresariales jóvenes en la región y destacan los peligros de la comparación directa con centros empresariales más maduros. Este nuevo libro, que ofrece nuevas perspectivas, presenta una visión general analítica del ámbito empresarial que permitió a Bulgaria convertirse en la capital de puesta en marcha de los Balcanes. Con datos empíricos recopilados de más de 80 entrevistas y estudios de casos, los autores abordan las necesidades de los responsables de la toma de decisiones y los administradores en muchos países que están en el camino hacia el fomento de ecosistemas empresariales. ; This book sheds light on one of the biggest development issues of our time: how the rise of entrepreneurship and the associated mindset is likely to unfold in unexpected places and change socio-economic and political fortunes. Focusing on the Balkan Peninsula, the authors explore the early success of young entrepreneurial ecosystems in the region and highlight the dangers of direct comparison with more mature entrepreneurial centres. Offering fresh insights, this brand new book presents an analytical overview of the entrepreneurial domain that enabled Bulgaria to become the start-up capital of the Balkans. With empirical data gathered from over 80 interviews and case studies, the authors address the needs of decision-makers and managers in many countries which are on the path towards nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Este libro arroja luz sobre uno de los mayores problemas de desarrollo de nuestro tiempo: cómo es probable que el auge del espíritu empresarial y la mentalidad asociada se desarrolle en lugares inesperados y cambie la suerte socio-económica y política. Centrándose en la península de los Balcanes, los autores exploran el éxito temprano de los ecosistemas empresariales jóvenes en la región y destacan los peligros de la comparación directa con centros empresariales más maduros. Este nuevo libro, que ofrece nuevas perspectivas, presenta una visión general analítica del ámbito empresarial que permitió a Bulgaria convertirse en la capital de puesta en marcha de los Balcanes. Con datos empíricos recopilados de más de 80 entrevistas y estudios de casos, los autores abordan las necesidades de los responsables de la toma de decisiones y los administradores en muchos países que están en el camino hacia el fomento de ecosistemas empresariales. ; This book sheds light on one of the biggest development issues of our time: how the rise of entrepreneurship and the associated mindset is likely to unfold in unexpected places and change socio-economic and political fortunes. Focusing on the Balkan Peninsula, the authors explore the early success of young entrepreneurial ecosystems in the region and highlight the dangers of direct comparison with more mature entrepreneurial centres. Offering fresh insights, this brand new book presents an analytical overview of the entrepreneurial domain that enabled Bulgaria to become the start-up capital of the Balkans. With empirical data gathered from over 80 interviews and case studies, the authors address the needs of decision-makers and managers in many countries which are on the path towards nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have grown in prominence given the vital need to transform economies around the creation of innovative products and services,thereby leading to wealth creation and international competitiveness. Such ecosystems involve a network of interactions of individuals and organizations from business, government and university. Despite the heightened popularity of entrepreneurial ecosystems, more attention is needed on the effective governance of its key stakeholders to ensure that anticipated outcomes are achieved. The current literature focuses mainly on business stakeholders rather than the wider variety of players from government and university who also play a critical role. It also inadequately addresses the governance process in managing these stakeholders to ensure appropriate performance. To address these issues, this study applies network governance theories to the entrepreneurship literature. In so doing, it offers pertinent governance implications to key stakeholders involved in entrepreneurial ecosystems including firms, universities and government agencies.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have grown in prominence given the vital need to transform economies around the creation of innovative products and services,thereby leading to wealth creation and international competitiveness. Such ecosystems involve a network of interactions of individuals and organizations from business, government and university. Despite the heightened popularity of entrepreneurial ecosystems, more attention is needed on the effective governance of its key stakeholders to ensure that anticipated outcomes are achieved. The current literature focuses mainly on business stakeholders rather than the wider variety of players from government and university who also play a critical role. It also inadequately addresses the governance process in managing these stakeholders to ensure appropriate performance. To address these issues, this study applies network governance theories to the entrepreneurship literature. In so doing, it offers pertinent governance implications to key stakeholders involved in entrepreneurial ecosystems including firms, universities and government agencies.

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities, interactions and experiences, the book highlights the role and complexity of individual, organizational, and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities, it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change, while others may be much more difficult to change, reorganize and restructure. It offers scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Universities, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and sustainability: An overview -- Part I: Universities and entrepreneurial ecosystems -- Chapter 1 Entrepreneurial ecosystems, learning regions, and the role of universities -- Chapter 2 The dark side of the university's participation in innovation ecosystems -- Chapter 3 Enablers to fostering interactions during entrepreneurship events within universitybased entrepreneurship ecosystems (U-BEEs) -- Chapter 4 Does education ensure entrepreneurial initiative? Approaching an entrepreneurial ecosystems taxonomy -- Chapter 5 The ambiguous role of best practice examples for knowledge spillovers: Evidence from universities and start-ups in the Berlin entrepreneurial ecosystem -- Part II: U–I cooperation and sustainability -- Chapter 6 Building sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems: A mediated model of university–industry collaboration, knowledge creation, and the entrepreneurial environment -- Chapter 7 University–industry collaboration to support sustainability: An analysis of the determining factors for European Union countries -- Chapter 8 University business incubators as drivers of sustainability: The perspective of critical success factors -- Chapter 9 Universities as change agents of SMEs' sustainable innovation: A knowledge transfer view -- Chapter 10 University research centres as catalysers in entrepreneurial ecosystems: Fostering the transitions towards sustainable business models via the university–business interface -- Chapter 11 The Spinner Innovation: Factors for inclusion and advocating in sustainable ecosystems -- Part III: Universities and entrepreneurial activities -- Chapter 12 Boundary spanners enabling knowledge integration for sustainable innovations in university–industry research centres -- Chapter 13 An entrepreneurial ecosystem support model in the digital era: Crowdfunding -- Chapter 14 Steering productive entrepreneurship activities in emerging markets: The role of the university -- Chapter 15 Medical device scientists' influence on research impact within entrepreneurial ecosystems: A systematic literature review -- Chapter 16 Students' perceptions of university social responsibility: A cross-cultural comparison -- Chapter 17 Which pathways lead us to the university of the future? -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors

Growing importance has been attached to the concept of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) as productive structures that encompass complex sets of interaction driving economic agents' competitive capabilities. Drawing from biomimetism, the EE approach dedicates attention to unraveling the mechanisms through which socioeconomic environments organize to introduce new knowledge and innovations in markets. Yet, while challenges associated with identifying the spatial scale of natural ecosystems have long been part of discussions in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, and in economic geography, the geographic reach of EE remains largely uncharted in literature. Importantly, from a biomimetic standpoint, we know that ecosystems' boundaries must be defined according to their formative processes, rather than reflect predefined political or administrative boundaries. In this study, we try to shed some light on these topics, underscoring the analytical and methodological challenges associated with the spatiality of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Thinking about entrepreneurial ecosystems as fixed analytical units attached to administrative boundaries will likely cause an inadequate analytical understanding of how entrepreneurship-oriented relationships are distributed in space.

The "entrepreneurial ecosystem†metaphor is capturing attention in academia, industry, and government. The entrepreneurial ecosystem approach is used in corporate, national, or local contexts, and has grown in prominence given the vital need to transform economies around the creation of innovative ideas, products, services, and technologies. Entrepreneurial ecosystems involve a network, a system, of interactions of individuals and organizations, like financial intermediaries, universities and research institutions, suppliers and customers, multinational companies, or the government. The entrepreneurial ecosystem literature has thus mainly focused on identifying the relevant stakeholders like entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurs and how they interact with other stakeholders within a more or less defined system. Despite the popularity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach, the literature has almost overlooked and largely ignored the governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems. This special Issue of Small Business Economics critically examines issues concerning the governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

"In recent years, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship have become an important topic of conversation in established organizations, academia, policy circles, and popular media. The seemingly exponential growth and success of startups (despite evidence that the rate of startups has gone down) coupled with the importance of entrepreneurship for job creation have fueled the rise of scholarly research as well as public and private support for entrepreneurs. Influential foundations, think tanks, and institutions, such as the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank among others, have put up millions of dollars to support entrepreneurship in terms of scholarly work, practical solutions, and startup training in the United States (US) and around the world. Over the same time period, the popularity of US-based shows featuring entrepreneurial activity, such as Shark Tank, growing social media attention toward (and notoriety of) founders (e.g. Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, etc.), and celebrity-founded companies (such as Goop by Gwyneth Paltrow and Fenty Beauty by Rihanna) have allowed entrepreneurs and startups to capture social imaginaries across the globe. Books by well-known and respected entrepreneurs, such as Brad Feld's (2012) Startup Community, have become popular in creating a sense of hope, optimism, and opportunity through intentional efforts to create entrepreneurial communities"--

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The intellectual foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems -- 3. The actors and factors of entrepreneurial ecosystems -- 4. Ecosystem practices and processes -- 5. Global entrepreneurial ecosystems -- 6. Critiques of entrepreneurial ecosystems -- 7. Conclusion -- Index.