Researchers tend to rely on metaphors to gain initial comprehension of complex systems.
However, literature offers little guidance for this strategy. This paper presents criteria for …

This article explores how firms can orchestrate innovation ecosystems to enhance
collaboration for innovation among different actors. Most previous research on ecosystems …

The fierce competitive status of the business world has urged innovation activities to
transform from mechanistic to ecological and organic. An innovation ecosystem consists of …

This paper addresses recent calls to enhance our understanding of innovation ecosystem
genesis, focusing in particular on the roles that come to prominence during this important yet …

Purpose The concept of an innovation ecosystem, based on the idea of business ecosystem,
has increasingly grown in the literature on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship …

Path-breaking innovations are increasingly developed and commercialized by networks of
co-creating actors, called innovation ecosystems. Previous work in this area demonstrates …

In this article, we provide a rationale for this Special Section on innovation and
entrepreneurial ecosystems. We also present a summary of the papers presented in the …

The current state of empirical research on ecosystems is reviewed, including business,
innovation and platform ecosystems. A systematic literature review identifies several units of …

This chapter adopts a problem-solving perspective to analyze the competitive dynamics of
innovation ecosystems. We argue that features such as uncertainty, complexity, and …

Currently, many terms are used to describe business ecosystems and their inhabitants.
These terms have meanings that can cause definitional confusion and an ambiguous level …