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While many western economies today make notable investments in the development of systems of entrepreneurship to support the survival of entrepreneurial ventures, the mortality rate remains high. To explore the problem of high mortality of young ventures, I examine the role of entrepreneurial systems in shaping organisational emergence. I conceptualize the entrepreneurial system as an institutional field and explore the role of both the logic and the infrastructure of the field in the emergence of the new organisations. Empirically, I study a group of ventures that, despite their demographic homogeneity and shared origins in a single entrepreneurial accelerator, came to reflect different entrepreneurial forms. Using multiple comparative case analysis, I identify four different entrepreneurial forms, of which one exhibits higher levels of mortality than the others. I argue that the heterogeneous forms reflect variations in …