In the past few years, we have witnessed a reinvigorated interest by academics, practitioners
and policymakers in the ecosystem concept. Recent reviews have set out to clarify the …

This paper reviews implications of recent research on competitiveness and clusters for
regions and regional policy. A new framing of competitiveness clarifies the role of regions. Its …

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 …

The idea that skills, technology, and knowledge, are spatially concentrated, has a long
academic tradition. Yet, only recently this hypothesis has been empirically formalized and …

Recent years have seen the emergence of a new institutional form in the entrepreneurial
ecosystem: the seed accelerator. These fixed-term, cohort-based “boot camps” for start-ups …

Industry 4.0 heralds the profound transformation of business models by enabling the fusion
of virtual and real worlds and the application of digitization, automatization and robotics in …

Economic diversification—the process by which locations enter new economic activities—is
known to be a combination of related and unrelated diversification. Related diversification is …

Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity
but also the initial quality of new ventures. Combining comprehensive business registries …

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry
performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result …

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age
individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The …