An ecosystem in the air? The instance of start-ups and the arrival of the LGV SEA in Bordeaux

Nathalie Gaussier and Claude Lacour

Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) from Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA)

Abstract: According to the economic, institutional and political agents, the arrival of the High Speed Line South Europe Atlantic LGV SEA in Bordeaux would trigger or boost a \"Bordeaux regional entrepreneurial ecosystem\". This present paper examines this concept of ecosystem and offers to show its main characteristics, stressing the part played by start-ups, and assessing the economic and spatial logics involved. In a first part, the point is to understand to what extend the start-ups that politicians claim to be the spear-heads of those ecosystems, would constitute new stakes of operating in ecosystems. The survey enables to re-examine the concepts of ecosystem and of entrepreneurial system, to place them into prospect in the frame of regional science and of models of regional development. In a second part, we highlight the characteristic elements of this bordelais ecosystem, using what we call its fundamental DNA: the bordelais entrepreneurial ecosystem is grounded on numerous start-ups whose nature as well as personal and spatial components put into question the emergence of new forms of organization and relationships with the major companies and research laboratories.

Keywords: Ecosystem; start-up; entrepreneurial system; creative creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M13 P00 R10 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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