A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems: towards a future research agenda

Yana Borissenko and Ron Boschma ()

No 1630, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) literature has attracted much attention, especially in policy circles. However, the concept suffers from a number of shortcomings: (1) it lacks a clear analytical framework that makes explicit what is cause and what is effect in an entrepreneurial system; (2) while being a systemic concept, the EE has not yet fully exploited insights from network theory, and it is not always clear in what way the proposed elements are connected in an entrepreneurial system; (3) it remains a challenge what institutions (and at what spatial scale) impact on the structure and performance of EE; (4) studies have often focused on the EE in single regions or clusters, but lack a comparative and multi-scalar perspective; (5) the EE literature tends to provide a static framework taking a snapshot of EE without considering systematically their evolution over time. For each of these shortcomings, we make a number of suggestions to take up in future research on EE.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial ecosystem; Entrepreneurial system; Networks; Entrepreneurship; Clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M21 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11, Revised 2016-11
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