The “entrepreneurial ecosystem” has become the dominant metaphor in theories explaining
how location-specific forces influence entrepreneurship. Despite the progress made by …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are receiving heightened attention from scholars and
practitioners. Studies have focused on isolating entrepreneurial ecosystems' components; …

Abstract Ahokangas, Boter, and Iivari address larger contextual and interaction-based
issues in framing, developing, and supporting entrepreneurial activity and processes. With …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have developed from a powerful idea and concept into a
transdisciplinary research program, increasing our understanding into entrepreneurship-led …

Despite the emerging body of literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs), theoretical
development is still in its infancy. In this article, we explicitly draw upon the analogy of forest …

In its most abstract sense, an ecosystem is a biotic community, encompassing its physical
environment, and all the interactions possible in the complex of living and nonliving …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a prominent concept, yet in its current state, the
concept itself represents a paradox. While it draws on a rich intellectual history and provides …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have quickly become one of the most popular topics in
entrepreneurship research. Ecosystems are the characteristics and factors of a place that …

To date much of the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature treated ecosystems as confined
geographic locations with definitive boards. However, in the past decades, technological …

With innovation and entrepreneurship lauded as important contributors to economic futures,
there is a pressing need to unravel the complexities of entrepreneurial ecosystems as a …